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Revealed on: March 7, 2024
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England captain Ben Stokes described the Dharamsala pitch for the fifth Take a look at towards India as an absolute gem. He stated that after trying on the floor, they determined to go in with two seamers and two spinners for the sport.
As they’ve completed so many instances currently, England named their participant XI for the Dharamsala Take a look at a day earlier than the match. The guests made one change to their crew with quick bowler Mark Wooden changing Ollie Robinson.
Throughout a pre-match press convention, Stokes defined that they’d decided on the enjoying XI primarily based on the floor offered. Dharamsala is colder than different instances at the moment of the yr. Nonetheless, as a result of there was no grass on the floor, the batters had been capable of take pleasure in themselves.
“Earlier than we even obtained right here we in all probability thought it was going to be a three-seam, one-spinner assault, however once we noticed the wicket and noticed it once more as we speak, I feel it is in all probability the fitting resolution to go two-seam and two spinners to go,” stated Stokes.
“We felt like there would in all probability be a bit extra grass on the wicket simply due to the place we’re, however general the wicket appears to be like completely unbelievable. So enjoying with two gamers and nonetheless Bash ( Shoaib Bashir) and Tom (Hartley) we get combine in the event you’re a bit not sure of what it should do because the take a look at progresses,” he defined.
After their defeat within the fourth Take a look at in Ranchi, England suffered their first sequence defeat within the ‘Bazball’ period [Stokes as captain and Brendon McCullum as coach]. Nonetheless, Stokes claimed that trying past the scoreline, they’ve positively made progress within the sequence.
“At 3-1 you suppose it hasn’t been successful, however I take a look at it from a totally totally different angle and I feel we have positively made progress as a crew even when we did not get the outcomes we needed. You recognize “3-2 sounds higher than 3-1 or 4-1 and that is clearly what we need to do,” stated the England captain.
“By way of outcomes, it isn’t that labored out, however we obtained one final push right here, which is nice on the finish of an extended tour if you play 5 video games. It is an awesome floor to do it and plenty of Barmy Military are too.” I am going to come by this week to help us. I’m very excited,” the cricketer additional stated.
The England captain additionally candidly admitted that other than the primary Take a look at in Hyderabad, which the guests received, India have completed higher on the essential moments and due to this fact the outcomes have gone their method.
“What I look again on is that when the sport was on the road, India had been higher than us greater than as soon as in these moments,” he stated.
The match in Dharamsala marks the a centesimal Take a look at for each Ravichandran Ashwin and Jonny Bairstow.
–By a cricket correspondent