Ian Chappell took a veiled dig at Gautam Gambhir after Indian batters' poor success ratio against the reverse-sweep as seen during the New Zealand Tests.
Pope, who is the stand-in captain for England in the three-match series against Sri Lanka in the absence of regular skipper Ben Stokes, is under scrutiny for his poor batting show in the series. He has scored just 191 runs in six innings at an average of 31.83. But the bulk of his runs have come in the third Test at his home ground at The Oval, where he scored 154 in the first innings.