India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak said Rishabh Pant's stroke-filled 134 was different from his typically aggressive knocks, as the wicketkeeper showed more restraint and control during his innings. Kotak also admitted that India could not capitalise on their strong position and fell short of the first-innings total they had targeted in the opening Test against England.
00:00I think it was a bit of a collapse I would say because batsmen
00:26were only 4.30, 4.3 to 4.71 all out so batsmen were out. It was a bit of a collapse I was expecting better than that but it can happen.
00:43I mean he gets criticised by who?
01:08Well everybody has their own opinions. We can't stop what people think.
01:21Coach, we saw those three drop catches and then the no ball of just people. What about the reaction and the thought was going through inside the dressing room among the coaching staff?
01:33Normally it doesn't happen but it was a bit unfortunate. But I think as a support staff or as a group of support staff or as a team also, I think it's part one of those things which happened and happened.
01:51I mean we've been bowling well I think apart from little patches where we looked few runs. So all in all it was very good and the wickets also looking good. Something and something happening of the wickets. It's good.
02:03And another one on Shubhman, of course there was a lot of debate and questions around his form, his numbers outside Asia, outside subcontinent. What work did you do individually with Shubhman in terms of technique? He looked a bit compact, bad coming not from the third slip but the first slip. Such minute details if you can explain what the work went behind Shubhman with.
02:25See I think after Australia, he has thought certain things which he implemented. Because after Australia and after England Series Champions Trophy and then we had IPL. So I wouldn't say that I had a lot of time to do things but obviously he worked on certain things.
02:47And as soon as I seen him in the Nets, I did spoke to him that you made certain changes and he said yes. So it is a lot of credit to him for analysing what he needs to do and I think he bet it really well.
03:03I don't think complacency but I think after 350-43 you expect to
03:32you get a big score because you get a big score because that time you have sitting on a comfortable position. But that's why I don't think people were satisfied at all. It's just they bowled well and a couple of soft dismissals.
03:48I think after losing the toss where we bet it, yes it was very good because heading Leo normally on day one,
04:01a lot of wickets get taken by the bowling side and results also shows the same. So I think we bet it well first day.
04:11Sardul normally is a bowling all-rounder but sometimes
04:25just as the breaks we had the time we had the time we had the time we had the time we had,
04:43a lot better, a lot better. Usma probably, if captain thought the way he distributed the spells,
04:49well good. It is good. But it is good. It is not an individualism.
04:53If he feels it is good for the team, it is good for the team.
05:01Can you talk about Rishabh Pant's defensive skills, some people have not spoken officially
05:06enough about his defensive skills for batting?
05:09See there are players, so Rishabh Pant I think is someone who makes his own plans.
05:15He decides and he bets.
05:18This inning was a little different than you would see him normally.
05:22But honestly that is his plan, the way he wanted to approach it.
05:26And when he wanted to attack, he did.
05:29Because he plays aggressive does not mean that he can't play defensive.
05:34Coach, can you tell us how many targets are you?
05:38500-600 or we should go up to 500.
05:42You have done a lot of work in Bekenham.
05:44Prasiddh Krishna has done a lot of batting.
05:47We have seen a lot of mistakes.
05:49Tailender specifically has done a lot of batting.
05:52Is that his disappointment today?
05:54He did a lot of work, but he didn't look at it.
05:56But today is another day.
05:58How did he?
05:59He did a fast test.
06:00Somewhere we will see.
06:02No, they all want to bet.
06:04They all...
06:05And we were thinking, we weren't thinking total, but we were thinking that session by session
06:11we will take it.
06:12So the first session and then the second session.
06:15But in between there was a collapse.
06:17So from one inning I would not just say that it was disappointing or anything.
