“Whose phone is that?” asked Tim Paine as a phone doubling up as voice recorder buzzed midway through the press conference. They lost not just the energy, but their collective voice and belief, and floated around like an untied kite. But such was the toil—and the knowledge that all the labour will be futile—that he seemed knackered in the end. After all, he has bowled 242.1 overs this series That is 1453 balls, which is three balls more than Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami have combined. But the captain and the bowlers came up with a decent plan and unfortunately it didn’t work,” he had said.

Source: Indian Express January 04, 2019 19:16 UTC