Anushka Sharma-Led Wives’ Brigade Fails To Inspire Team India In 4th Test

Picture courtesy Instagram

London: With the BCCI allowing wives/girlfriends to accompany Team India cricketers, they have been having a great time in England even as the husbands have cut a sorry figure of late during the third and ongoing fourth Test matches.

On a day when Indian floundered against against the England pace attack after being asked to bat first at The Oval, Jasprit Bumrah’s wife Sanjana Ganesan, shared a picture in social media of herself along with spouses of other players at the ground.

Among others in the photo are Bollywood star and ‘first lady’ of Indian cricket Anushka Sharma, Ishant Sharma’s wife Pratima Singh, Mayank Agarwal’s better half Aashita Sood and Ravichandran Ashwin’s spouse Prithi Narayanan.

“Back with the ladies !!! ?” was how Sanjana captioned the image posted on Instagram.

Having lost the third Test at Headingley by an innings to squander the advantage they had gained with a remarkable victory at Lord’s, India slumped to 127/7 after tea on the opening day of the fourth Test before being bowled out for 191.

Captain Virat Kohli was the only recognised batsman to make a decent contribution, hitting his second successive half century of the series. No. 8 Shardul Thakur smashed a belligerent 56 off 36 balls with 7 fours and 3 sixes to carry India close to 200.