2024 will begin with quite a lot of Test cricket the world over whilst India are scheduled to host England for a five-match Test collection. The much-awaited collection is about to begin on January 25 and can go on until March 11. All eyes might be on England’s Bazball strategy all through the 5 Test matches and lots of are calling it a stern take a look at for the Ben Stokes-led aspect.
Meanwhile, former England cricketer Steve Harmison has acknowledged that rather a lot will depend upon the best way the visiting workforce will put together for the collection. While talking to TALKSport Cricket Podcast, he acknowledged England deserve to lose 5-0 towards India in the event that they land in the nation three days earlier than the beginning of first Test. “If England go in three days earlier than, they deserve to get beat 5-0, they actually do. I’m an outdated man. And that’s what they’re going to say: ‘Times have changed, the game has changed.’ But I let you know what, preparation hasn’t modified.
“You can not go into India underprepared. [In fact], you can not go into India overprepared. You could be in India six weeks before and still not be prepared for that first Test and the emotion of that,” Harmison stated highlighting the significance of preparation for the India collection. For the unversed, India is without doubt one of the hardest locations to win a Test collection and the hosts have not misplaced a single Test collection at residence since 2012. Interestingly, England, beneath Alastair Cook’s captaincy, was the final workforce to beat India in India.
England captain Ben Stokes has now give you a response to Harmison’s assertion saying that they are going to be having a camp in Abu Dhabi earlier than travelling to India and that preparation must be ok for them. “Good job we’re going to Abu Dhabi for a training camp before we go to India for even more training before that 1st test then isn’t it,” he wrote in his tweet.
It stays to be seen if England’s aggressive strategy will work in India because the ball turns in the nation from Day one with matches ending on Day three largely. However, with Test venues being completely totally different to regular, the pitches would be the speaking factors but once more through the Test collection. Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Ranchi and Dharamsala might be internet hosting 5 Tests respectively.
