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The sq. turner on the Chepauk for the second Test and the Ahmedabad mud bowl supplied for the ‘pink ball’ sport are hardest surfaces that Ben Foakes has saved on in his nascent worldwide profession.
India have put England on the mat with a few tracks which aided the house spinners as Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel ran riot, giving India 2-1 lead within the four-match sequence.
“Last two games are the hardest pitches I have kept on. In the last game the pink ball was skidding, I haven’t seen a wicket like that and keeping on it was a good challenge,” Foakes, who has changed Jos Buttler as per England’s rotation coverage, mentioned throughout a digital media convention.
By his personal admission, Foakes hasn’t seen a cricket ball flip a lot.
“The two pitches that I have played, I have never seen ball turn like that. It’s certainly very challenging. It’s like having day five pitch from ball one.”
But for one in all world’s finest glovesman, the final two video games had been studying expertise and actual enjoyable.
“When the ball spins, it’s fun to keep and in Sri Lanka, it was easy because it was consistent and you knew the ball is going to turn. What I found during pink ball Test was it could spin square past batter or it could skid.”
He admitted that no keeper can take each catch on these form of tracks.
“On these sort of pitches, you cant catch every ball.”
Foakes is aware of that within the subsequent Test sequence, he may not be holding wickets with Buttler set to come back again but it surely does not trouble him a lot.
“The way I have approached is three matches for England and try and play as well as I can. Not look too far ahead and enjoy the moment I guess,” he mentioned.
As far because the final Test goes, Foakes feels that the staff must make peace with the truth that wicket will behave a sure approach and but they’ve to provide their finest shot.
“Understanding and making peace that we are going to get out in a certain way. We have to grind it out and just put runs on the board. Be solid and understand our gameplan which will be different for all of us. If you get out, get out but trying to do it your way.”
He additionally feels {that a} optimistic mindset and readability of their sport plan will solely assist as testing instances also can have an effect on the potential of judgement.
“Trying to maintain a transparent optimistic mindset as a result of when you find yourself struggling, you aren’t getting clouded in your judgement as issues can go badly, follow gameplans and processes, probably at instances, be barely extra optimistic.
“Trying to come up with a gameplan that can potentially work on that surface and not have experience like the boys had in the last game,” is what Foakes is .
He will not thoughts if England draw the sequence and forestall India from making the World Test Championship ultimate.
“We have been completely outplayed by India and if we can put in a 2-2 draw, it will be a great result.”
