Former England spinner Graeme Swann does not imagine Rohit Sharma’s captaincy was higher than Ben Stokes’ within the five-match Test collection. Rather, it was a deadly set of bowlers that “did the trick” for the India skipper. While Stokes’ management fashion has attracted all the eye previous to and in the course of the collection, Rohit’s workforce emerged 4-1 winners in the long run.
“I don’t think he has been superior as a captain because his bowlers have done the trick for him. I think he’s got more weapons at his armoury,” Swann instructed PTI Videos in an unique chat after India inflicted an innings and 64-run defeat on England within the fifth and ultimate Test on Saturday. (Rahul Dravid Names Greatest Six-Hitter India Has Produced; He Is Not MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh)
“He’s been good don’t get me wrong, Rohit Sharma, but, I don’t think if you pick this apart and say Stokes has captained badly, I think you are barking up the wrong tree there. Rohit Sharma’s bowlers have really come to town for him, come to the party for him, in the last four Test matches, they didn’t in the first one but they have done for the last four,” Swann famous.
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No blaming Bazball
Far from blaming ‘Bazball’ for England’s loss, Swann mentioned Stokes and Co really did not play the model of cricket that has introduced them success in current occasions. Swann’s remark is in stark distinction to the views expressed by few different former gamers who attributed the drubbing to the guests’ fixation with Bazball.
“I don’t think we have seen Bazball in this trip whatsoever, we saw it for one innings of this Test series, that’s when Ollie Pope got a 190, and that was the definition of bazball,” he mentioned. (Team India Back On Top Of ICC Test Team Rankings After 4-1 Win Over England)
“I think England, where they have fallen flat in this series is, they have not been brave enough. I don’t think they have played what you guys in the media call Bazball. I think if they had, I think this series would have been closer if I am honest.”
Bazball, which is derived from England Test coach Brendon McCullum’s nickname Baz, fell flat because the vacationers capitulated inside three days within the fifth Test, serving to India safe their seventeenth straight Test collection triumph on house soil. On the match getting over in underneath three days, Swann mentioned: “I would say it is an excellent commercial for Test cricket, as a result of it was an thrilling match.
“India were just too good for England in this game. It’s always at the end of a series if it’s already been won by one team, you worry that this will happen, the resistance will be completely blown away and it was in this Test match. So England will have to go home and shake themselves off wondering where it went so badly wrong. India are world class especially their bowling attack, and that was really shown again in this Test match.”
As a former off-spinner himself, Swann applauded Ravichandran Ashwin’s stupendous efficiency on his 100 Test match. (Rohit Sharma Makes Big Statement On His Retirement, Says ‘I Feel In Last 2 Or 3 Years…’)
“You know what it’s brilliant, to get a fifer on his hundredth Test match. I have not actually seen him, I was looking to go and congratulate him myself but I will have to do that at the hotel later.”Bowling so properly and making these early inroads, that was sensible, presumably one in all his greatest fifers in his 100 Test matches, so you’ve got to take your hat off to Ashwin,” he noticed.
On James Anderson changing into the primary quick bowler to succeed in 700 wickets, Swann mentioned: “He’s a joke, Jimmy is an absolute joke, how he has kept going for all this amount of time. When I say it’s a joke I mean that in a good way, he’s been incredible, and to get 700 wickets, well you know it’s almost nonsensical the achievement and I love him to bits. I was kind of hoping when he almost bounced Kuldeep out, almost hit his gloves and bobbled in the air, that would have been the dream for Jimmy, because he has not bowled a decent bouncer for 10 years, but he has now.”
