It’s sport and everyone is quite aggressive and quite intense in their own ways: Washington

LONDON: Tamil Nadu offie Washington Sundar was excellent with the ball on Sunday as he picked up four wickets helping India to bundle out England for 192 runs in the third Test here at Lord’s. Speaking on his show, the all-rounder admitted this was one of his best days with the ball outside India. 

“Definitely one of the best days with the ball for me, especially outside of India. But yes, definitely had some solid plans coming into this Test match and really wanted to execute them both in first and second innings. Mostly wanted to contribute to the team quite differently in different passages of play,” he told journalists during the post-day press conference.
He, however, emphasised that the team’s win matters the most at the end of the day. “But yes, the way it turned out to be for me as well as the team the whole day today is really good and very heartening for me. I mean, there’s a team game and we’ve got to do, as players, we’ve got to do everything the team needs. And at the end of the day, as long as the team wins, that’s all it takes and that’s all that matters as well.”

Talking about the two games he has played so far in the series, Washington said, “I would say both games are quite different. The venues were quite different. At Lord’s, I was thinking there wouldn’t be a lot of bounce, especially looking at the game that happened a couple of weeks ago, the World Test Championship finals. So, the probability of a ball hitting the stumps, especially of good lengths, is a lot more compared to the last two venues that we’ve played. So, according to that, there were some plans and yes, I think all of us bowled really well, especially the fast bowlers. They bowled their hearts out on day four. After having bowled a lot of overs in the first innings, they still came out with their heart and bowled really well consistently.”