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  • Ashes 2023: Lucky to bat with Joe Root, says Jonny Bairstow on essential partnership in Edgbaston Test

    By India Today Sports Desk: Jonny Bairstow stated that gamers performing beneath stress during the last 12 months is among the main causes behind England’s immense success in Test cricket. On Friday, June 16, Bairstow batted for the primary time in Test cricket since August 2022 and confirmed that he’s nonetheless a brute power with the bat.

    The right-handed batter scored 78 runs off as many balls with the assistance of 12 fours earlier than Nathan Lyon accounted for his wicket within the opening Ashes Test at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Bairstow was proud of the truth that England confirmed numerous intent from the very first ball of the match the place Zak Crawley hit Pat Cummins for a 4 via the covers.

    “Overall it has been a great day. The intent the fellows confirmed, Zak’s first shot of the day, in stark distinction to final time. The crowd’s been on good type and we actually loved it. [First ball] I do not assume that is a change during the last 12 months. If the ball’s there to be hit, you hit it. The lads are on the market with a smile on their faces, from the beginning of the day to the top, when Robbo slipped over.

    “There’s different pressures, when you’re going in on the back of wins and with people in form, you have trust in each other. People doing their jobs and then you come together as a unit. That’s what the last 12 months have been about,” Bairstow was quoted as saying after the top of the day’s play.

    Need to create stress: Jonny Bairstow

    Bairstow got here to bat at a stage when England had been in a spot of hassle, having misplaced half their facet with their rating at 176 in 38.4 overs. From there on, Joe Root and Bairstow placed on 121 runs to place the hosts again on observe.

    “Five down you’re thinking a couple here and we could be in trouble. Been lucky enough to bat with Rooty for too long, and we’ve had some special times in the middle. We just had a bit of craic out there. Great fun being back out there, just got my hands and feet going again. Going to take a bit of time after my long lay off, but when you’re in you give it your best shot,” he said.

    England, within the meantime, declared their innings at 393 for eight. Regarding the identical, Bairstow stated that the bowlers should be affected person and relentless of their strategy going into Day 2 of the Test match.

    “Be patient and relentless on a length. They are going to hit the middle of the bat [sometimes] but we need to create pressure. We’ll turn up in the morning and they’ll have to start again,” he stated.

    — ENDS —

  • Sunrisers open their account as Punjab Kings play like paupers

    Sunrisers Hyderabad received their crew choice proper, and have been rewarded with a convincing nine-wicket win. After their first three matches, they have been all-time low. Their web run charge was gasping for an improve. On Wednesday at Chepauk, after bundling out Punjab Kings for 120, they gained with eight balls remaining.
    Bowlers did the job for SRH. Khaleel Ahmed with three wickets was first amongst equals. After that, David Warner and Jonny Bairstow placed on 73 runs for the opening wicket. The latter stayed until the top to make the win hiccup-free. Punjab, of their first match in Chennai, allowed circumstances to get the higher of them.
    First amongst equals
    Khaleel is a proficient left-arm pacer, adequate to play 11 ODIs and 14 T20Is. But inconsistency hasn’t served him properly. A fractured wrist early in 2020 was a setback as properly. On Wednesday, slower deliveries did the trick for him.
    Mayank Agarwal mistimed a pull and was caught by Rashid Khan at mid-wicket. The Punjab opener had had a reprieve within the very first over, Rashid dropping him off Abhishek Sharma on nought. On a day when KL Rahul fell cheaply, Agarwal was Punjab’s largest hope for a great whole. He did not capitalise on the youth.
    Fabian Allen, too, was taken out by a short-of-a-length slower ball, the batsman slicing it to further cowl. Khaleel’s third sufferer was Shahrukh Khan, who was spectacular, however went for a slog to a slower supply within the penultimate over. His crew was crawling and the teenager needed to likelihood his arm.
    Spare a thought for Abhishek Sharma, who dismissed Deepak Hooda and Moises Henriques, two exhausting hitters, to offer Sunrisers a major benefit. An arm ball foxed Hooda, whereas Henriques was executed in by a flighted supply.
    On a darkish and dry Chepauk pitch, it was by no means simple for Punjab to get into the groove straightaway. At the identical time, their batting past the opening pair doesn’t encourage a lot confidence. When Rahul and Agarwal hearth, Punjab revel. Chris Gayle, regardless of being the x-factor, has turn into extra of a big gamble at this stage of his profession.
    Jonny boy
    Adding to Punjab’s troubles, their greatest bowler hasn’t began to fireplace on all cylinders but. Coming into this IPL, Mohammed Shami hadn’t performed any cricket after struggling a damaged arm in Adelaide in December final 12 months. His radar remains to be not working.
    Warner slashed him for a 4 to place strain on the bowler proper on the outset. Allen bowled the subsequent over and Bairstow took a 4 and a six. To make issues worse, Punjab missed a run-out – Sunrisers’ floor fielding was glorious quite the opposite – when Bairstow was 15. Punjab regarded to have thrown within the towel a little bit too early.
    Sunrisers, although, had to make sure there was no middle-overs meltdown. So, it was vital for Bairstow to hold on. He did that, scoring 63 not out off 56 balls. Kane Williamson, again to full health, supplied an assured presence alongside the opener. Sunrisers had missed his class and quietness within the earlier three matches.

  • India vs England: Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow blow away hosts to stage collection

    England performed like world champions and made a mockery of a 337-run goal, courtesy a six-hitting spree from Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes, to stage the three-match ODI collection towards a shocked India in Pune on Friday.
    England didn’t throw it away just like the opening sport and capitalised on a flying begin offered by Bairstow (124 off 112) and Jason Roy (55 off 52) to gun down the goal in simply 43.3 overs with six wickets in hand.

    England win by six wickets!
    Bairstow and Stokes’ big second-wicket partnership and helpful contributions from Jason Roy and Liam Livingstone assist them stage the collection 🌟#INDvENG ➡️ https://t.co/t8SUo38VoP pic.twitter.com/FUIyQlY1QU
    — ICC (@ICC) March 26, 2021
    Stokes (99 off 62) performed a panoramic knock and missed out on a deserving hundred after a blazing 165-run stand with Bairstow.
    India amassed 336 for six courtesy KL Rahul (108 off 114) and Rishabh Pant (77 off simply 40) after England received the toss and opted to area once more.
    After Roy’s dismissal, Stokes hit sixes for enjoyable, 10 in whole, to make the seemingly daunting activity slightly snug for the guests. Bairstow, who struck his eleventh ODI hundred, too was not far behind with seven sixes and 11 fours.
    Barring pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Prasidh Krishna, the Indian bowlers had no reply to the onslaught of Stokes and Bairstow, who produced a show of sensational hitting.
    The duo was brutal towards the Indian spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav (0/84 in 10 overs) and Krunal Pandya (0/72 in 6), who conceded as many as 14 sixes.
    Like the earlier sport, England self-destructed by dropping three fast wickets within the center overs, together with the set Stokes and Bairstow, however debutant Liam Livingstone (27 not out off 21) and Dawid Malan (16 not out off 23) held their nerve to get their residence safely. It was England’s fifth highest chase in ODI cricket.
    Earlier, Rahul, who anchored the innings, hit seven fours and two sixes in his 114-ball knock whereas Pant plundered seven sixes and three boundaries to helpthe hosts go nicely previous the 300-run mark.

    Turn on, tune in, drop out 💯@klrahul11 | #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/EkoEJZROuA
    — ICC (@ICC) March 26, 2021
    Skipper Virat Kohli (66 off 79) and Rahul laid the inspiration for the massive whole with their 121-run third wicket stand after being put into bat on the MCA stadium.
    Opener Shikhar Dhawan (4) fell cheaply after he nicked a Reece Topley supply to Ben Stokes within the slips.
    Kohli joined Rohit Sharma (25), who seemed in his component, as he hit three boundaries off Topley (2/50).
    But within the subsequent over, Curran (1/47) cut-short his keep on the crease. Rohit flicked a full pitched supply straight to Adil Rashid at quick effective leg, as India slipped to 37/2.
    Kohli and Rahul stored the scoreboard ticking, with the India captain being the bit extra aggressive one, whereas Rahul initially performed second fiddle.
    Kohli, who acquired a ‘life’ on 35 when Buttler dropped a regulation likelihood off Adil Rashid, notched up his 62nd fifty with a single.
    The duo then accomplished their 100-run stand off 119 balls, with none fuss. However, Rashid (1/65) eliminated Kohli, whose thick outdoors edge was caught by Buttler, with India at 158/3.
    Rahul then put his foot on the accelerator, whereas largely counting on pulls and drives. Rahul, who hit his fifth ODI century and Pant then launched himself into England assault. Pant pulled Rashid for his first six, his trademark pull-shot and didn’t look again.
    Left-handed Pant smacked successive sixes off Stokes within the forty first over, finishing his second ODI fifty, in 28 balls.
    After Rahul fell, Pant continued his six-hitting present with Hardik Pandya (35 off 16) becoming a member of the enjoyable exercise as India amassed 126 runs within the remaining 10 overs.
    This was the second occasion when India hit successive 300 plus scores in 5 ODIs, the opposite one being in 2017.

  • IPL will put gamers in good mind set forward of T20 WC in India: Bairstow

    England opener Jonny Bairstow feels the upcoming IPL will put the gamers in a “good frame of mind” going into the T20 World Cup as they’ll play in situations just like the ICC occasion in India later this yr.
    Bairstow, who’s at the moment concerned within the three-match ODI collection in opposition to India, will flip up for Sunrisers Hyderabad when the IPL will get underway on April 9.
    “It will be a great opportunity to play at different grounds that we could potentially be playing in the T20 World Cup. Also to see how different teams will go about bowling in those conditions,” Bairstow mentioned throughout a digital press convention on Wednesday.
    “Because, naturally with the dimension of the grounds and also wickets, it varies how attacks go about defending totals and batsmen go about setting them, so it will be an interesting competition.”
    Sunrisers Hyderabad will open their marketing campaign in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai on April 11.
    “Obviously playing over here, it was a new ground, it was a lot of learning but the games that we have got in IPL will be in Chennai. However, the acclimatisation in India, whether it would be to the conditions or weather or in general will hopefully help,” he mentioned.
    “But nothing will be taken for assured, we all know the standard of the competitors, and high quality of the opposition…
    “… to be a part of the IPL, if you can come and do well in that hopefully then leading up to the World Cup, can only put in a good frame of mind because we have quite a few players playing in that.”
    Bairstow had scored a 66-ball 94 for a dropping trigger within the first ODI and he mentioned England misplaced key moments within the match however total there was nothing mistaken of their recreation plan.
    “To get ourselves in a situation and ahead of the game, we would have liked to get over the line … Everyone has gone back last night hurted, it is not a good feeling to lose a game,” he mentioned.
    “Our game plan has been very good in the last four years. I don’t think even yesterday we did a huge amount of wrong. There were key period where we didn’t capitalise on, we lost the key moments in the game.”
    The 31-year-old termed the failures as “building blocks” as they put together for the T20 World Cup.
    “I feel it’s one other constructing block in the direction of that (T20 World Cup), we now have spoken about constructing blocks forward of 2019 World Cup, placing ourselves in numerous conditions and are available out higher gamers and it’ll check us once more…
    “We are missing a few guys and it is an opportunity for people to play in different roles and also implement the skills that the players who are rested have within the team… You need to have the options.”
    Talking about life in a bio-secure bubble, Bairstow mentioned: “It could be very tough … from January 2nd until now it has been simply 10 days that I used to be house. In September once we went into the bubble at Manchester, up till Christmas, clearly there was a few weeks off until January.
    “So it’s robust being away and persons are going to want relaxation. It shouldn’t be simple simply turning up and taking part in cricket.
    “Living at a certain floor of the hotel, not able to leave the hotel … being away from families is tough and the break that people are getting through the winter has been important for people’s mental and physical health.”
    England’s rotation coverage noticed Bairstow being rested for the primary two Tests in opposition to India, one thing which was criticised by some former gamers.
    “We all know the amount of cricket that is coming up, we are only 7 months away from World Cup and back of that is Ashes and then West Indies tour next winter, and that’s without mentioning anything about English summer, so it is not easy thing scheduling when people will need slight break.”

  • Michael Vaughan feels Jonny Bairstow’s days are numbered in England crew

    Former skipper Michael Vaughan is satisfied that Jonny Bairstow’s days are numbered within the England Test crew after his dismal present within the just-concluded sequence towards India.
    India drubbed England within the fourth Test in Ahmedabad to assert the sequence 3-1 in an emphatic method.
    In his 4 innings, Bairstow couldn’t open his account on three events and scored 28 within the first innings of the fourth Test.
    Vaughan strongly feels such a poor present would end in Bairstow dropping his place within the facet when the Ashes sequence comes later this 12 months.
    “Jonny Bairstow is gone from this Test team. I can’t see him batting at three in England this summer or in Australia this winter. I don’t think there are really many positives to take from this tour,” Vaughan was quoted as saying by ‘Express’.
    “The only ones are that Joe Root, James Anderson and Ben Stokes remain up there among the best players in the world. Jack Leach has enhanced his reputation a bit as well.”
    Vaughan but once more made a powerful pitch for England to focus extra on Test cricket and never white-ball sequence.
    “These 4 video games ought to have been the top and the precedence for England on this a part of the 12 months, not the white-ball recreation.
    “There have been tight moments in all three of the Tests that India have won, but India have managed to take back control of the match very quickly in all three – often in the space of an hour.”
    Another former England captain Andrew Strauss was disenchanted that England surrendered in abject method as a substitute of placing up a battle towards Indian spin duo of Ravi Ashwin and Axar Patel.
    “You’re simply actually dispirited. You’re hoping England have realized classes, to point out some battle and for us to have the ability to log out saying ‘well, yes they’ve misplaced the sequence, however there are some positives’.
    “We didn’t see a lot of that. You look at Dan Lawrence I suppose, how he played in both innings actually, but it was sadly lacking from other players.”
    Strauss additionally felt that England weren’t maybe mentally robust sufficient to tackle the Indian spinners.
    “It’s so exhausting in Test cricket the place one crew will get on high, and so they get a psychological maintain on the opposition. It’s very exhausting to show that round. That’s what England have skilled over the past three weeks.
    “Their frailties got exposed. Steve Waugh used to talk about mental disintegration. It wasn’t about sledging, it was about the persistence of the Indian spinners and England had no real answer for it,” mentioned Strauss.

  • ‘After a rest, I’ll be raring to go’: Jonny Bairstow forward of India-England collection

    England batsman Jonny Bairstow admits it’s “tricky” to overlook the primary two Tests in opposition to India subsequent month however says there isn’t a different slot to take a break and he shall be “raring to go” when he comes again to the facet later within the tour.
    Bairstow, Sam Curran, and Mark Wood have been rested by the nationwide selectors for the primary two Tests starting in Chennai on February 5, a choice which was criticised by former England skippers Michael Vaughan and Kevin Pietersen.
    The England tour of India contains 4 Tests, 5 T20Is, and three ODIs.
    “If they hadn’t given me the break now, then when? It’s the way of the world at the moment. There’s no one who plays all three formats who is doing the whole tour,” Bairstow was quoted as saying by ‘Evening Standard’.
    “It’s tricky. It’s a huge summer and winter and sadly you can’t do everything. You do need to get out of the bubble and see your loved ones,” he stated.
    “After a rest, I’ll be raring to go in India.”
    Coming again to the England Test set-up, Bairstow scored 139 runs at a median of 46 within the two Tests in Sri Lanka and was concerned in two of England’s three stands of greater than 100.
    “I’ve absolutely loved being back. I was a bit emotional yesterday being back in the dressing room when you’ve won a series reaffirms why you keep doing it and never give up. It’s special,” stated the 31-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman.

    “I’d have liked to get a big score but I’m really happy with how I’ve played having not played a huge amount of red ball cricket for a little while, to come back in and spend the amount of time at the crease and contribute the way I have is really pleasing.”
    Bairstow had earned a Test recall for the Sri Lanka collection, having final performed for England within the Boxing Day match in opposition to South Africa in Cape Town in 2019.
    “It was frustrating because I wanted to prove that I could play red-ball cricket, which I hold so dearly. My aspirations are to play Test cricket for as long as possible,” stated Bairstow, who has scored 4169 runs in 72 Tests at 35.03.
    “I attempted to play in between bubbles but it surely’s arduous to correctly get your enamel caught into it, as a result of going and enjoying a recreation for Yorkshire is just not the identical as a Test collection, with a lead-in to get your recreation and mindset so as.
    “People won’t have seen the technical side of things that’s gone on during this series, it’s been a lot more spin dominant. But in the few bits of pace they bowled, there is a considerable difference to my setup. That’s something I’ll be going forward with.”

  • 1st Test, Day 1: England cruise to 127-2 after dismissing Sri Lanka for 135

    England set its sight on a significant first innings lead after offspinner Dom Bess took a career-best 5-30 to bowl out Sri Lanka for 135 on the primary day of the primary Test on Thursday.
    Captain Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow additional thwarted Sri Lanka ambitions with a gritty, unbroken stand of 110 runs to shut the day at 127-2, trailing by simply eight runs.
    Root reached his half-century off 94 balls and was unbeaten on 66 with 5 fours, whereas Bairstow was 47 not out.
    It may have been 52-3 however Root escaped on 20 when he efficiently overturned a lbw determination by way of video referral.
    Root and Bairstow got here collectively after left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya eliminated openers Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley to scale back the guests to 2-17 inside the primary 9 overs.
    Both batsmen grew in confidence and neutralized the three-pronged spin assault of Embuldeniya, Wanindu Hasaranga and Dilruwan Perera by way of sweep pictures and maintained a wholesome run price of three.4 runs an over to lift the century stand.
    Earlier, stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal, who received the toss and opted to bat, top-scored with 28 after common skipper Dimuth Karunaratne was dominated out with a damaged thumb in Sri Lanka’s first house take a look at because the pandemic started.
    Stuart Broad picked up two early wickets in a single over and 3-20 total, whereas Bess discovered some surprising help from the Galle International Stadium pitch to dismiss the house group simply earlier than tea.
    Bess, taking part in in Asia for the primary time, claimed his first wicket together with his second supply when Kusal Perera went for an formidable reverse sweep on 20 and gloved a easy catch to skipper Joe Root at first slip.
    Broad, bowling across the wicket, had the left-hander Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip on 4 in his fourth over. One ball later, Kusal Mendis fell for his fourth successive duck in assessments as he obtained a faint edge off Broad’s good leg-cutter.
    Senior execs Chandimal and Angelo Mathews shared a 56-run, fourth-wicket stand till they departed in successive overs after lunch.
    En path to 27, Mathews turned solely the fifth Sri Lankan to move 6,000 take a look at runs after Kumar Sangakkara (12,400), Mahela Jayawardene (11,814), Sanath Jayasuriya (6,973), and Aravinda de Silva (6,361).
    But the previous skipper was dismissed by Broad after the break when a free shot was caught at slip by Root at chest top.
    In the following over, Chandimal, who reached 4,000 runs in assessments, gave a tame catch within the covers off Jack Leach.
    Bess ran by way of the tail shortly.
    England gave a take a look at cap to Essex batsman Dan Lawrence, who dropped a simple catch of Chandimal within the covers simply earlier than lunch. The guests opted to relaxation James Anderson and picked Sam Curran and Mark Wood to associate Broad.
    England wore black armbands in reminiscence of former England take a look at cricketers — John Edrich, Robin Jackman and Dom Smith — who died not too long ago.

  • Kings XI Punjab defeated Hyderabad by 12 runs in the 43rd match of the Indian Premier League.

    In the 43rd match of the Indian Premier League, Kings XI Punjab defeated Hyderabad by 12 runs. Batting first, Punjab scored 126 for 7 wickets. In response, Hyderabad’s team could score only 114 runs. Hyderabad needed 14 runs in the last over but Punjab bowler Arshadip Singh spent just 2 runs in this over. This bowler gave victory to his team by dismissing Priyam Garg and Sandeep Sharma. Punjab has retained their hopes of reaching the playoffs with this victory. Let us know that Punjab has won 5th in 11 matches.

    Skipper Warner and wicketkeeper Bairstow gave a fast start to Hyderabad, chasing a small target of 127 runs. David Warner in particular looked very aggressive. Warner scored 35 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 3 fours. He, along with Bairstow, took Hyderabad to 50 in the powerplay, but as Punjab put on the spinners attack, Hyderabad came to the backfoot. First Warner was dismissed by Ravi Bishnoi for 35 runs. After this, Bairstow also settled for 19 runs. Abdul Samad was dismissed by Shami at 7. However, Manish Pandey and Vijay Shankar shared 33 runs to bring Hyderabad into the match again.

    After this, Punjab returned again from the 17th over. Chris Jordan gave his team a hope by dismissing Manish Pandey for 15 runs. In the 18th over, Arshdeep gave victory to Vijay Shankar for 26 runs and gave his team the victory. Hyderabad needed 17 runs in the last 2 overs but Chris Jordan took two wickets in this over after spending just 3 runs. Jordan dismissed Holder and Rashid Khan for two consecutive balls.

    Hyderabad needed 14 runs in the last over and captain KL Rahul gave the ball to Arshadip Singh. Arshdeep let Priyam Garg score just one off the first ball. After this, he showed the path of pavilion to Sandeep Sharma on the next ball. On the third ball Arshdeep also dealt Priyam Garg. After this, he did not give any runs on the fourth ball. Khalil Ahmed was run out on the fifth ball and thus Hyderabad team was reduced to just 114 runs.

    Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday stopped Kings XI Punjab for 126 runs on seven wickets in the Indian Premier League match on the basis of the performance of their bowlers. After winning the toss, the decision of the first bowling captain David Warner was proved correct by the Sunrisers bowlers. Punjab wickets kept falling at regular intervals.

    For Punjab, captain KL Rahul (27), Mandeep Singh (17) and Chris Gayle (20) started well but could not play solid innings. Punjab could not get a big partnership. Gayle came out to bat at number three and was not allowed to play openly by the Sunrisers bowlers by putting the ball outside the off stump. In the end, Gale played a bad shot off his West Indian teammate Jason Holder and Warner took a great catch in the long off.

    Holder conceded 27 runs and Rashid took two wickets for 14 runs. At the same time, Sandeep Sharma took two wickets for 29 runs. Rashid bowled a bold blow to Punjab by bowling Rahul on the very first ball of the 11th over. At this time the score was 66 for three wickets.

    Glenn Maxwell (12) continued in poor form and returned to Sandeep by catching Warner at long on. Deepak Hooda was tricked by Rashid and in an attempt to go ahead and play he fell victim to Bairstow. The Sunrisers bowlers had put such pressure that no fours were hit in Punjab’s innings till 11 overs. Nicholas Puran broke this pressure in the 19th over, who remained unbeaten after scoring 32 off 28 balls