Manchester, July 26 -- India's batting coach, Sitanshu Kotak, spoke about the performance of the number 3 batter in the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar series against England. He felt that Karun Nair and Sai Sudharsan had started well but hadn't converted their starts into significant scores.

Despite these, he doesn't see it as a major concern, highlighting Sai's good batting in the first inning of the fourth Test at Manchester as a positive aspect. India went with Sai at No.3 in the series opener, but he made zero in the first innings and 30 in the second.

He was dropped from the side, and Karun was promoted up the order. However, in three Tests, Nair has mustered only 131 runs at an average of 21.83.

While speaking to the media, Kotak sai...