Even after leading 2-1, India was not able to win the series! The recent 1 year hasn't been the best for Indian cricket, the captain and coach rift has changed a lot! After the era of Virat-Shastri, Indian cricket seems to be divided into two factions! A very settled coach like Dravid and on the other hand a brash player like Virat Kohli who has been famous for abusive language in his career! How can harmony happen?
Why question on Kohli? Because other than the discussion of his next century, Indian cricket has been incomplete even after his captaincy is gone. In current cricket, the focus is more on one player. There was still more talk of Virat Kohli's next century than to unite the team! Virat Kohli has gone through his best cricket phase and a long gap of almost 3 years testifies to the last century of the player, it is not easy for any player to be balanced in today's cricket! However, the team's defeat in the deciding test match raised a lot of questions!
England’s passionate feat told the world how Test cricket is lived under the coaching of Brendon McCullum. With a 3–0 win over New Zealand in recent days, McCullum has made it clear that he wants to see the players play fearless cricket. On this, Stokes said after the match that even if India did 450, England was ready for that too.
“Don’t know where this line ends. I wanted them to go up to 450 so we can see what we can do,” he told Sky Sports. He said, “I said yesterday after the end of the day’s play, look how the team is looking at us at the moment, that third innings has now become the fourth inning because now their focus will be on how we play. So being in this position as a team, the teams will be scared to end their innings on how to play the third innings, especially.
A batting God!
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Stokes said, “These five weeks have been very fun days in my career. I don’t think everyone will understand what happened here. When you have a clear idea of what you want to do and what you want to achieve , and think about the bigger than the consequences it makes everything a lot easier. It takes the extra pressure off of you from the international game. When you know you know what to do when you go out there, all Things get simpler.”
He said, "We are trying to rewrite how Test cricket is played. We have worked out a different strategy for each situation in the last four or five weeks and we will take it further. It will not always happen. Keep bowling close to the stumps, the point is, how are we going to take wickets? That's what you have to do as a bowling attack for 10 wicket lanes.”
A new era of Test cricket
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“We know we want to give a new lease of life to Test cricket and the support we have received in the last five weeks has been fantastic. It is wonderful that seats are being filled in such a short period of time and we feel like we are in the new.” The fans are earning. We are encouraging the next generation, this match is more important for us than the result, it is for the people who will play for the England team in the future, the people who will be part of the dressing room later We want to make a mark in Test cricket.”
Root and Barstow’s feat established England once again
In the deciding test match, the hosts won the toss and invited India to bat. After India’s poor start and losing 5 wickets for just 98 runs, England made their intentions clear. Virat, Gill, Pujara could not touch the 25-run mark and went on cheaply.
Just a reverse scoop for off a seamer while we chase a record total
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But the twist came in the game when Pant and Jadeja showed their spirit. Both the batsmen made a partnership of more than 200 runs, which took India’s score past 300. India scored 416 runs in the first innings.
The sound off @jbairstow21's bat this summer
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The hosts dIdn't start well and lost 5 wickets for just 83 runs but another century from Bairstow helped England to score 284 runs. India had a lead of more than 100 runs but were very disappointed by the big names, Pujara and Pant’s half-centuries definitely handled India for some time but as soon as they were dismissed, the team collapsed and India’s second innings was reduced to 245. Due to which England got a target of 378, which the team achieved with centuries from Root and Bairstow.
