ENG vs IND | Virat Kohli will have to answer for his tactics at Headingley, reckons Michael Vaughan

Indian bowlers toiled hard to pick eight wickets on the second day of the third Test at Headingley. But it didn't stop the hosts from piling up a lead of 345 runs at the end of the second day. Virat Kohli’s tactics on day two were questioned widely as the skipper started off with Ishant Sharma, who lacked rhythm throughout the first day. Former English skipper Michael Vaughan criticized Virat Kohli’s tactics and opined that India should have started with the in-form Jasprit Bumrah for the opening burst in the morning session when India needed early wickets desperately.

“The best teams in the world adapt. This Indian team are a good team, but they can’t be up there with the great teams unless they are actually willing to accept that they need to arrive and do things differently," he added.

“I think they should be careful that they don’t do things for show. For me, I saw at Lord’s, I thought it was brilliant that all their team came into the Long Room to greet that partnership (between Bumrah and Shami). I like that, in a team, I want to see that. But you can’t do things like that and arrive the week after and put in a performance like this. That doesn’t happen in real high-class cricket. That looks to me now like all histrionics and antiques, it just looks like it was for show. A team that is really together and fight in with that crunch of the situation, they don’t play like what we have seen India play in the last two days.

“What really has happened to India in the last two days? They have arrived and played in these two days like a really poor cricket team," he signed off.