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‘We could have won three Tests’: Ollie Pope on ‘frustrating’ series loss against India | Cricket News

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England vice-captain Ollie Pope has summed up team’s 1-4 series loss in India as “frustrating” and said they could have won at least three out of the five Test matches. After losing the opening Test in Hyderabad by 28 runs, the Rohit Sharma-led India won the remaining four to win the series. “Frustrating, from the team’s point of view and personal point of view.,” Pope told the Sky Sports. “I think from the team’s point of view and personal point of view. We put ourselves in lot of good position, probably in three of the five Test matches. We were in the position after Day 2, where we had every chance of winning those games. “Two of the games, we didn’t played anywhere near our best but the other three I feel like we could have won each if them. That’s probably the more frustrating part about the whole tour in general.” On his own performance Ollie Pope scored 296 runs in the series. He was the third highest run-scorer in the England team. Surprisingly …

Not Rohit Sharma but if Virat Kohli was captain, India wouldn’t have lost Hyderabad Test against England: Michael Vaughan | Cricket News

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India’s 28-run loss to England in the first of five Test matches was only their fourth loss in the longest format of the game in a decade’s time. Of all Test playing nations, India have the best win/loss ratio at home since January 2014 (7.50). Michael Vaughan believes the hosts wouldn’t have lost the match had Virat Kohli been the captain instead of Rohit Sharma. “They missed Virat Kohli’s captaincy massively in Test cricket. Under Virat’s captaincy that week, India wouldn’t have lost the game,” Vaughan said on Club Prairie Fire podcast. Despite having a 190 run lead after both the teams batted once in Hyderabad, India would concede 420 in the second innings before being bundled for 202. The former England skipper critiqued Rohit Sharma for his captaincy in the first Test, stating that the 36-year-old looked switched off and without a response to the England batters and their Bazball approach. “Rohit is a legend and a great player. But I felt he just switched off completely,” Vaughan said. “I thought Rohit Sharma’s captaincy …

India vs England: Bazballers script come-from-behind win for the ages | Cricket News

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The hushed silence from the locals and the increasing decibel levels of the Barmy Army’s lead trumpeter from the east stand at the fall of every Indian wicket in Hyderabad sounded like a death knell for the hosts. If they needed a wake-up call about the enormous task that lies ahead of them to bring the Bazballers from England down, Sunday provided them with plenty. Having watched haplessly as England recovered from conceding a 190-run lead and set a target of 231 to win the first Test, India fell short by 28 runs. After Ollie Pope’s game-changing 196 with the bat that set the tone, debutant left-arm spinner Tom Hartley (7/62) ran through India’s batting line-up to bag only the second five-wicket haul of his first-class career. Like in 2021, when they began the Test series with a win, England have started on a similar note this time, but the road to recovery isn’t going to be easy for India. This being only India’s fourth Test loss at home since 2013 may not sound alarming. …

India vs England: How Bumrah’s reverse-swinging pearlers arrested England’s free-swingers | Cricket News

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The new ball was taken off Jasprit Bumrah’s hand after a two-over spell. With R Ashwin immediately finding turn, Rohit Sharma brought Axar Patel from the other end. Switching between mid-on or short fine-leg, Bumrah would use every opportunity, sometimes just five-ten seconds, to urgently shine the ball. When the ball was not in his hands, standing at fine-leg, he would point out the BCCI emblem on his t-shirt to whoever had the ball, signalling which side of the ball to shine. For the next 13 overs, as England’s top-order employed the reverse-sweep to good effect and thwarted the plans of India’s spin trio, Bumrah would watch the proceedings quietly from his perch. He would often walk for a short conversation with Ashwin and Rohit, using those moments to attend the red-cherry. With lush green outfields being the norm in Indian grounds, like the one in Hyderabad, and since the ICC stopped players from using saliva to shine the ball, bowlers have struggled to find reverse swing. The ball doesn’t scuff up easily. But the …

‘It looked like a dead lbw’: Ben Duckett on Shubman Gill surviving a close call | Cricket News

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England opener Ben Duckett says Shubman Gill surviving a close call looked like a “dead lbw” and still believes that if they can take wickets in cluster to put India on the back foot. “It feels like a tricky pitch to start on,” he told reporters. “Shubman (Gill) there, we could have had him. It looked like a dead lbw (when he was struck on the pad by Tom Hartley) and somehow, it’s bouncing over the stumps. It’s one of those things. “We’ll stick to our mantra and that’s taking wickets and looking to be positive. Hopefully, that will happen for us as well.” India will resume from 119 for 1 on Day 2 and Yashasvi Jaiswal’s attacking gameplan has taken England by surprise but with pitch deteriorating quickly, England are still in the match. “You have to pay credit to them… they played really well and were very attacking, which is positive,” he said. “They don’t always go about it like that, so to go about it that way shows that they probably think …

IND vs ENG: How India’s batsmen capitalised on England’s callow bowling group | Cricket News

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At the end of Day One, of a series that promises plenty of thrills and twists, Yashasvi Jaiswal, with an unbeaten 76 off 70 deliveries, has opened up a glaring hole in England’s set-up that has the potential to bury them down. Their inexperience. Two of their three spinners with a combined experience of just one Test before this are not showing sufficient signs of complimenting Jack Leach, whose control alone may not be enough for them to get the job done, particularly on a pitch that is on the slower side. How much their decision to go without a second seamer could cost them only time will tell, but India have, so far, made full use of it. A day dominated by #TeamIndia 💪 Catch a glimpse of the key moments from the #INDvENG 1st Test on Day 1️⃣.#IDFCFirstBankTestSeries #JioCinemaSports #BazBowled pic.twitter.com/6Yehg59l49 — JioCinema (@JioCinema) January 25, 2024 Having restricted England to 246 on what is probably the most batting friendly surface in recent times (barring the one in Ahmedabad against Australia, which played …

India versus England: Hyderabad pitch will turn, but by when and how much | Cricket News

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The arrival of Bazball and the fixation around it means all the usual noise that comes up in the lead up to a Test in India is rather quiet. So much so that when Rohit Sharma and Ben Stokes fronted up to the media on Wednesday, there was just one question about the pitch on offer for the first Test at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium. “It looks good,” was all that Rohit had to offer. Not a word more or less. The attention was understandably more on Bazball and whether it could work in these parts, an unchartered territory as far as Stokes & Co. are concerned. They may not have spoken publicly about it, but the 22 yards remained the sole focus for both teams during their training session. By naming three spinners in their XI – Jack Leach, Rehan Ahmed and debutant Tom Hartley – to go with the sole sheer pace of Mark Wood, England clearly gave away their reading of the pitch. With the temperature being in the mid-20s …

Rahul Dravid defends Shubman Gill’s poor form in Tests, clarifies KL Rahul’s role and gives his verdict on Hyderabad pitch | Cricket News

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Rahul Dravid defended Shubman Gill’s struggle in the Test cricket, made it clear that KL Rahul won’t be playing as a wicketkeeper and the pitch at the Uppal Stadium in Hyderabad will turn from Day 1. Gill, 24, who has been in great touch in the white-ball has failed to convert his form in the Test cricket. Since moving down to the No 3 position in West Indies, he has only managed 103 runs in six innings. “Gill is a fine player. Starting out as a journey as a cricketer sometimes we forget that it takes little bit of time at times. Some guys have success instantly, actually he is one of those guys who has done really well in some of his early days, especially in Australia,” Dravid told reporters on Tuesday. Dravid blamed it on the tough wickets on which the Test cricket has been played in the last two or three years. “To be fair to him a lot of young guys coming through are playing on some challenging wickets, whether it’s …