Birmingham
\nEngland opener Keaton Jennings says he is \u201ccool\u201d with Indian skipper Virat Kohli\u2019s \u2018mic drop\u2019 celebration after his teammate Joe Root\u2019s dismissal in the opening Test here as everyone is entitled to do it their own way.<\/p>\n
Kohli\u2019s celebration of Root\u2019s dismissal with a \u2018mic drop\u2019 gesture, mocking the bat drop by the Englishman to celebrate a hundred during the ODI series, added a bit of spice to the proceedings yesterday.<\/p>\n
The Indian skipper ran out Root with a direct hit when the home player was attempting to pull off a risky second single in the 63rd over.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fine. Everybody is entitled to celebrate how they want to. He celebrated, and that\u2019s cool,\u201d Jennings said at the end of day\u2019s play, playing down the incident.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the English batting, which collapsed from 216 for 4 to 285 for 9 at the d draw of stumps, Jennings said the hosts missed an opportunity but can still make it up.<\/p>\n
R Ashwin was the star for India with figures of 4-60.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can come out and be pretty relentless in the way we go about hitting our areas, at some point, you don\u2019t actually know what a good score is until both sides have batted,\u201d Jennings said.<\/p>\n
Jennings lauded Root for his knock, the end of which triggered the home team collase.<\/p>\n
\u201cRoot played fantastically well. The way he goes about constructing his innings, builds it, communicates with me as a young cricketer, it is absolutely phenomenal. Having batted with him today, he\u2019s taught me a hell of a lot, which is awesome, just to watch a master at his work.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a fantastic player, fantastic guy and to watch him go about building a Test innings on a pretty tough surface was pretty good. I suppose it\u2019s pretty disappointing for him personally not to go on and get a really big score,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
With Alastair Cook falling cheaply, Jennings put on 72 runs with Root but fell after lunch when he was distracted by a pigeon on the adjacent pitch one ball earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cI obviously made an error, misjudged the ball, and it ended up in my stumps, and that\u2019s the way it is. I don\u2019t blame the pigeon at all,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n
\u201cThirty overs before, people were standing up behind the bowler\u2019s arm, you could say that distracted me as well. You re-focus, go through your own method, your own process between each ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say it distracted me at all. It just happens to be the ball before I got out, and suddenly there\u2019s a huge hoo-hah about the pigeon,\u201d he laughed it off.<\/p>\n
Ashwin took charge of the day\u2019s proceedings for India. While Jennings praised the spinner, he couldn\u2019t commit whether both teams were wrong in going with only one spinner in their line-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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