England all-rounder Moeen Ali open to Test return below Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes

Star all-rounder Moeen Ali has claimed that he would love to affix England’s Test revolution below new coach and captain duo of Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes.

Moeen Ali open to Test return below Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes (Reuters Photo)

HIGHLIGHTSMoeen Ali stated he would love to affix England’s Test revolution below McCullum and StokesMoeen Ali retired from Test cricket final September after successful 64 caps for EnglandMoeen, who made his debut in 2014, was a part of England’s World Cup-winning squad in 2019

England star all-rounder Moeen Ali is open to returning to Test cricket, saying he would like to play below head coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes. Moeen, who made his debut in 2014, was a part of England’s World Cup-winning squad in 2019.

Notably, Moeen retired from Test cricket final 12 months with 2914 runs and 195 wickets from 64 matches. He, nonetheless, continues to symbolize England in limited-overs cricket. He has to this point performed 112 ODIs and 49 T20Is, amassing 2514 runs and taking 120 wickets throughout the 2 codecs.

“He [McCullum] got the job and messaged me the day after during the IPL and said, ‘are you in?'” Moeen informed BBC Test Match Special.

“He said he will call me on the weekend. So we spoke and he said, ‘look in future if we need you if there are injuries or a tour in the sub-continent etc, are you keen to play?’

“He’s a really troublesome particular person to say no to that and I discovered that very, very onerous. He’s very convincing.

“To be honest, I’d love to play under him and Stokesy. Both of them have that character about them. They’re very aggressive. I think I would suit their cricket a bit more and I think they feel I would suit them as well.”

McCullum is assured that Moeen can simply translate his white-ball abilities into Test cricket.

“I’m sure if Mo [Moeen] wanted to [play Test cricket] and was prepared to put the yards in to make it back into the side then he’d challenge, no doubt,” stated McCullum.