Nottingham: India’s middle order mainstay VVS Laxman reckons his world number side has the ability to bounce back in the four-match Test series against England as the second game starts here on Friday.
“We have the potential to bounce back and we have done that in the past,” Laxman said.
The elegant middle order bat recalled last year’s series against South Africa, where India made a strong comeback to draw the rubber after losing the first Test at Centurion.
“We lost badly against South Africa in Centurion but came back strongly to draw the Test series for the first time on South African soil,” he said.
India find themselves in a pretty similar situation against England at the moment, largely due to the English bowlers’ ruthlessness, but Laxman is not losing his sleep thinking about the opposition attack. “I would not put much importance on the way English bowlers bowled. They just bowled at good areas, they got their wickets and rewards. It was not an exceptional bowling attack where they ran through our batting,” he said.
VVS conceded that India were hit hard by the absence of strike bowler Zaheer Khan. “The difference was the 150-120 runs extra that we gave to England and it was due to the absence of Zaheer Khan.”he added. (Agencies)