England captain Ben Stokes misplaced his first Test series as captain on Monday (February 26) as England could not defend the goal of 192 runs on the fourth day of the fourth Test in Ranchi. Dhruv Jurel was the star of the Test successful the participant of the match award in his debut series itself. Not just for India however the kids have stepped up for England as nicely with Tom Hartley and Shoaib Bashir choosing wickets.
For the identical cause, Stokes is pleased and proud that his facet put up a struggle towards India in their very own den pushing the house workforce to the nook a number of occasions. “I believe it was an amazing Test match. If you see the scoreboard, it will say India gained by 5 wickets, nevertheless it does not give credit score to the best way issues unfolded, the ebbs and flows on each single day it occurred. I can solely be happy with my workforce, we ‘ve had some inexperienced spinners (Bashir and Hartley), however I’m happy with their efforts, they got here right here with out a variety of publicity and the best way they stored bowling.ÂÂ
“I can’t ask for anything more. Part of my captaincy is allowing the young guys to revel and the freedom to play in some difficult and intimidating conditions in India,” he stated after the match. He additionally opened up on Joe Root‘s criticism after the third Test for his poor kind and felt that each one the chatter outdoors was unfair because the champion cricketer responded with a correct Test century in the primary innings in Ranchi. Stokes additionally admitted that it was very robust for the batters to face the likes of Ravi Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav in the second innings.
“I am an enormous Test cricket fan, the numbers of children coming alongside in each groups units issues up properly for the way forward for Test cricket. If you look yesterday, something was attainable, it was extremely troublesome batting towards the spinners (Ashwin, Jadeja and Kuldeep), scoring grew to become troublesome and so was rotating the strike. We knew the pitch would not get any higher, as we noticed immediately. I do not assume the criticism of Joe Root has been honest, the sheer quantity of cricket he is performed, acquired 12,000 Test runs. He’s unimaginable.
“So is Bashir, what a story, what a journey, taking 8 wickets including a 5-fer against India after having hardly played a lot of cricket is superb. You want to win series, you want to play and win cricket matches. I’ve been here for a couple of years (as captain) and my message is simple. The only thing I can say is we left nothing on the field, we’ve fought hard and I’m happy with that,” Stokes added.
