All posts tagged: Vizag Test

Why Shreyas Iyer is living on borrowed time in the England series | Cricket News

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Kevin Pietersen was raging. “Listen, when Kohli comes back and other guys come back [KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja] and these are the days these boys are going to look back and go, ‘oh why did I not get a hundred? I had the opportunity to get the hundred’. And when you are sloppy like that, getting out doesn’t impress me at all,” the former England batsman, and now television pundit, fumed after the first innings in the second Test at Vizag. His anger was directed at India’s No.4 for the game Shreyas Iyer Now, even without Virat Kohli playing, but the “other guys” returning, the pressure is still on Iyer. Luckily for him, his contender Rajat Patidar didn’t make it count either and the shootout between the two for a spot in the team when the third Test swings into action in Rajkot on February 15 will be interesting. With Rahul’s return, India might want the more overtly aggressive Iyer in the mix but you never know. That it has come to this is …

After Vizag Test loss England head back to Abu Dhabi to spend time with family and play golf | Cricket News

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The Ben Stokes-led England cricket team have head back to their Abu Dhabi training camp with their families and play some golf for an unusually long nine-day break before the Rajkot Test. After their 106-run loss in Vishakhapatnam, the England team instead of having more intensive practice on their menu, they have opted to utilize the 10-day break between the second and third Test as a relaxation. England prepared for the highly anticipated Test series against India with an extensive conditioning camp in Abu Dhabi instead of arriving in the subcontinent early for practice matches. “We had full belief in ourselves that we could chase that down,’ said the England captain,” said the England captain. “The way we have gone about taking on challenges like that is what we’re about. The way we applied ourselves and put India under pressure was great but unfortunately we didn’t end up on the right side of the result,” he said. “We’re a level headed team and that allows us to put this behind us and move on to …

IND vs ENG: Bumrah stops Bazball | Cricket News

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As the clock struck 2:12 pm, Tom Hartley’s off-stump went for a walk. On a sun soaked Vizag pitch, Jasprit Bumrah stood with his arms out-stretched before the rest of his teammates mobbed him for one final time here. On a pitch that hardly showed any signs of coming to life, it was befitting that Bumrah (match figures of 9/91) gave finishing touches to a Test that he had single-handedly put India in control from Day 2 onwards. And on Monday, with the help of R Ashwin, he helped India finally overcome the Bazball blues, posting a series-levelling 106-run win. After two rounds, it reads India 1, England 1. And when the series resumes after a nine-day break in Rajkot, it would need a brave punter to put money on which way this will end. If the jubilant celebrations in the middle showed the magnitude of this win that comes sans Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami, there were loud cries in the dressing room too. Head coach Rahul Dravid, who wasn’t …