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Britain's Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, right, speaks with India's skipper Suryakumar Yadav, left, and England's skipper Jos Buttler earlier the commencement of the 5th Twenty20 cricket lucifer betwixt India and England astatine Wankhede Stadium successful Mumbai, India, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
England skipper Jos Buttler connected Sunday said that helium has 4 interaction subs astatine his disposal successful a cheeky excavation astatine India’s usage of concussion sub Harshit Rana successful the 4th T20I match.
“And our 4 interaction subs contiguous are Reham Ahmed, Saqib Mahmood, Jamie Smith and Gus Atkinson,” Buttler said aft winning the flip and putting India to bat first.
In the 4th lucifer connected Friday, India pacer Rana’s T20I debut arsenic a concussion substitute replacing all-rounder Shivam Dube successful the 4th T20I triumph implicit England successful Pune had sparked a contention among fans and pundits alike.
Jos Buttler not holding back.🔥
He really announced 4 interaction subs astatine flip itself.🤣😭 pic.twitter.com/TcHQEZsZ9D
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Match referee Javagal Srinath’s determination to o.k. Rana arsenic a ‘like-for-like’ replacement for the hard-hitting Dube who scored a match-defining half-century did not spell down good with England skipper Jos Buttler aft his missed retired connected levelling the bid by 15 runs.
The young Rana would crook up to beryllium the thorn successful the English chase, picking 3 wickets successful 4 overs replacing Dube who was deed by a abbreviated shot from Jamie Overton connected the penultimate shot of India’s innings.
“It is not a like-for-like replacement. We don’t hold with that,” Buttler had told reporters aft the match.
“Either Shivam Dube has enactment connected astir 25mph with the shot oregon Harshit’s truly improved his batting. It’s portion of the crippled and we truly should person gone connected to triumph the match, but we disagree with the decision,” Buttler added.
“There was nary consultation [with us]. That’s thing I was reasoning arsenic I came retired to bat – who is Harshit connected for? They said helium is simply a concussion replacement, which I evidently disagreed with. It is not a like-for-like replacement. They said that the lucifer referee had made the decision. We had nary accidental successful it oregon immoderate portion of it. But we’ll inquire Javagal [Srinath] immoderate questions conscionable to get immoderate clarity astir it.
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“Like I said, it was not the full crushed wherefore we did not triumph the match. We had our chances to triumph the crippled which we could person inactive taken. But I’d similar to person a spot much clarity connected that.”
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