As soon as I proclaim England as the best Test team in the world they have arguably their worst performance of the Stokes era. A game that thanks to Ben Duckett was pretty even after two days swung dramatically in India’s favour. Duckett aside all the outstanding individual performances came from Indian players; Rohit, Jadeja twice and Jaiswal who looks like a future star. In the second England could take pride in defeat but not so here, this was a piss poor performance. Going forward it would help if Joe Root would just play his own game, his current batting shows about the same intelligence as his captaincy and hopefully someone in the management will realise Barking mad Bairstow’s golden 2022 was an anomaly. There I said it.
We’ve been here
before, a chastening defeat sees all of us thinking “BB couldn’t really work…”
but so far under Stokes England have managed to bounce back. Being 2-1 down
away should be a bridge too far anywhere, let alone in the most difficult
conditions a visiting cricket team can face.
We’ve seen recent England teams crumble in Australia and here in India
many times before. But if there has ever
been an England team that can turn it around then it’s this one.
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