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  • Watch: England awarded 5 penalty runs in Women’s T20 World Cup match vs Pakistan

    In a wierd incident, England have been awarded 5 penalty runs throughout their recreation towards Pakistan within the ongoing ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in Cape Town on Tuesday.

    Pakistan wicketkeeper Sidra Nawaz through the fifteenth over of the innings whereas receiving a ball from the fielder eliminated certainly one of her gloves and throws on the bottom in entrance of her. The ball after the fielder throws again slips out of her hand and falls on the deserted glove. The umpires then have a dialogue and penalised Pakistan 5 runs for the incident.

    According to MCC legal guidelines 28.3.1, “Protective helmets, when not in use by fielders, may not be placed on the ground, above the surface except behind the wicket-keeper and in line with both sets of stumps.” on this case the ball shall be deemed lifeless. nonetheless, if it isn’t the case, “the umpire shall award 5 Penalty runs to the batting side,” the regulation says.

    Nevertheless, within the grand scheme of issues these 5 runs wouldn’t have mattered as Pakistan misplaced by an enormous margin of 114 runs. The big-hitting Nat Sciver-Brunt smashed an unbeaten 81 off 40 balls as England

    With England already qualifying for the semifinals as desk toppers together with second-placed India, the sport was quite a bit about fine-tuning their preparation for the knock-out recreation on Friday.

    Opener Danielle Wyatt gave England a wonderful begin with 59 off 33 balls earlier than Sciver-Brunt unleashed carnage in his knock comprising 12 fours and a six to take her staff an enormous 213 for 5.

    Amy Jones additionally made a quickfire 47 off 31 balls.

    Pakistan was by no means within the run chase and crawled to 99 for 9 in 20 overs. England remained unbeaten within the group stage.

    Katherine Sciver-Brunt and Charlotte Dean picked up a few wickets every.

    Australia are set to face India within the first semifinal on Thursday, whereas England’s semifinal opponent shall be determined following the New Zealand-South Africa contest on Tuesday night time.

  • Ben, England’s master-Stoke captain; McCullum calls his captaincy unbelievable

    A 3-0 whitewash of Pakistan, in Pakistan. And a staff that’s revelling within the freedom and confidence the captain imparts: Ben Stokes is acing all of it. And garnering gushes from his coach.

    Brendon McCullum known as Stokes’ captaincy “incredible” and mentioned he had taken it to a brand new degree through the 3-0 sequence win in Pakistan, in keeping with cricket.com.au.

    That England drained over diseases within the squad, and the way in which Stokes dealt with his troops gasoline are available for reward. “All three Tests were thrilling affairs on England’s first tour of Pakistan in 17 years, while off the field they have pulled together in the face of adversity as several squad members were ill during the month-long trip. And with a home Ashes series on the horizon in June, after two Tests in New Zealand in February, head coach McCullum believes Stokes deserves all the plaudits,” cricket.au wrote.

    England’s skipper Ben Stokes, heart backside, performs a shot as staff’s coach Brendon McCullum, proper, and others watch throughout a coaching session, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

    In his first abroad sequence success as skipper, England have seemed reworked since he was appointed in April, the web site added. The McCullum and Stokes mix gave given England 9 out if 10 wins, with a model of cricket that emphasises attacking play.

    “He seems to have (taken it to a new level), it’s quite incredible,” McCullum mentioned of the 31-year-old Stokes. “What we see on the sector, pulling the strings, is one factor – he’s consistently lively, making performs and all the time interested by wickets and he’s so constant together with his message that he doesn’t care about runs.

    “That’s one factor, however what he does off the sector is sort of outstanding: his man-management, his common positivity is sort of staggering.

    I believed he’d be good however he continues to exceed expectations. He and I are beginning to construct a very good relationship, not simply on the sector however off it as properly. We’ve obtained an excellent one.”

    McCullum picked his man-management type narrating behind the scenes incident in getting an unwell Jack Leach by the second Test in Multan. “The most obvious example was when Jack Leach was crook in the second game and Stokesy was unbelievably ill as well – he never talked about that, he was just concerned about the other guys, trying to work out who was going to take the field,” the New Zealander mentioned.

    “He went to Leachy’s room, he was just about a non-starter, and he mentioned, ‘You’re taking part in, I’ll get you thru, I desperately want you on this staff since you’re so essential to us’.

    “That’s a reasonably highly effective message from somebody as strong-willed and with a persona like Stokesy. But that’s only one instance – there’s masses – it blows you away. The subcontinent will be difficult if you’ve obtained safety restrictions, however truthfully, it’s sort of been the very best factor for us.

    “The camaraderie that’s developed, the relationships and the way guys interact teaches you so much. It’s been an amazing four weeks and Stokes has been leading that.”

    Cricket.au additionally quoted Harry Brook, who scored a century in all three Tests in Pakistan, saying Stokes led from the entrance and all of the gamers have purchased into the mantra instilled within the dressing room.

    “Absolutely, the way he plays his cricket, he leads from the front, but he’s said plenty of times that it will only work if everybody buys into it, and everyone who has played has done that,” Brook was quoted.

  • Rehan Ahmed places England on brink of memorable 3-0 win in Pakistan

    Legspinner Rehan Ahmed turned the youngest males’s take a look at cricketer to assert a five-wicket haul on his debut and put England getting ready to a historic 3-0 sweep in its first take a look at tour to Pakistan in 17 years.

    Pakistan’s batters crumbled for 216 within the second innings of the third and closing take a look at because the 18-year-old Ahmed grabbed 5-48 and Jack Leach (3-72) claimed all three of his wickets within the area of six deliveries on Day 3 to depart England a modest goal of 167 runs.

    What a narrative, what a day.

    History maker.

    🇵🇰 #PAKvENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | @RehanAhmed__16 pic.twitter.com/Qguf91gp3K

    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) December 19, 2022

    Ben Duckett (50 not out) and Zak Crawley (41) motored England to 112-2 by stumps with their aggressive “Bazball” model of batting — named after their coach Brendon McCullum.

    England wants an additional 55 runs to register its second successive win inside 4 days following its thrilling 26-run victory at Multan final week. England gained the primary take a look at by 74 runs in dimming mild on the final day on a flat wicket in Rawalpindi.

    Crawley and Duckett plundered 87 runs off 69 balls earlier than thriller spinner Abrar Ahmed grabbed two late wickets. Crawley was adjudged leg earlier than wicket whereas making an attempt a sweep and Rehan Ahmed (10), promoted up the order, smacked two boundaries earlier than he swiped and acquired clear bowled.

    Harry Brook’s third successive century had given England 50-run first innings lead when it replied with 354 after dismissing Pakistan for 304, with Ahmed and Leach sharing six wickets between them. Pakistan, looking at its first ever 3-0 whitewash at residence, misplaced the final seven wickets for 52 runs within the second innings as Ahmed stifled the middle-order along with his sharp googlies and legspin.

    Captain Babar Azam (54) hit his third half century within the final 4 innings and Saud Shakeel (53) made his fourth fifty in his debut sequence earlier than Ahmed left the decrease order clueless on a wicket which has a variable bounce and gradual flip from Day 1.

    Babar and Shakeel had rebuilt Pakistan’s hopes with a 110-run stand earlier than each fell late within the second session to Ahmed. Babar turned the fourth take a look at participant to finish 1,000 runs this 12 months, however performed an overambitious pull towards Ahmed’s quick ball quickly after finishing his half century and Ollie Pope held a pointy catch at quick mid-wicket.

    What a second this was!

    He’s EIGHTEEN!!

    🇵🇰 #PAKvENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 pic.twitter.com/5GGq6udnLz

    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) December 19, 2022

    Ahmed, who additionally turned the youngest England take a look at debutant on the age of 18 years, 126 days, then picked up the wickets of Mohammad Rizwan (7) and Shakeel in successive overs to grab full management as Pakistan reached 177-6 at tea. Shakeel adopted up his three earlier half centuries in his maiden take a look at sequence with one other defiant fifty earlier than he top-edged a sweep towards Ahmed and was caught by Leach at sq. leg. Babar and Shakeel had defied spin and tempo for two hours, 45 minutes after Leach’s triple strike had decreased Pakistan to 54-3.

    Pakistan was forward by simply three runs when the highest order crashed towards Leach on a wicket the place spinners have dominated. Former captain Azhar Ali had a disappointing finish to his 97-test profession because the 37-year-old fell with out scoring in his final innings when Leach knocked again his off stump with a pointy turning supply.

    England gamers applauded and shook fingers with Azhar earlier than he took the ultimate guard along with his spouse and two sons amongst a sparse crowd on the National Stadium.

    But Azhar lasted for less than 4 balls towards his former Somerset teammate Leach earlier than the England gamers once more shook fingers with him for one final time. Azhar was accorded a guard of honor by his teammates on the sting of the boundary line as he slowly walked again into the dressing room. Resuming on 21-0, Shan Masood (24) began promisingly, smashing Joe Root for 3 boundaries and a six earlier than the offspinner was taken out of the assault after two overs.

    Abdullah Shafique wiped off the 50-run deficit with a pulled boundary towards Mark Wood’s 140 kph bouncer earlier than Leach struck thrice with out conceding a run. The left-handed Masood was bowled enjoying an extravagant reverse sweep because the ball clipped the underside fringe of his bat earlier than hitting leg stump.

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    Four balls later, Leach despatched Azhar packing after which pinned Shafique (26) plumb lbw on the entrance foot to depart Pakistan on the mat.

  • Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed picks 5/70 on debut to stymie England

    Unheralded Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed picked up 5 wickets in a dream Test debut towards England on Friday.

    The 24-year-old Ahmed, 5-70, had Zak Crawley clear bowled off his fifth ball in a Test match after which efficiently gained lbw choices towards half-century maker Ben Duckett (63) and Joe Root (8) by means of tv referrals.

    Ahmed challenged England’s aggression by means of his number of bowling on a wicket already providing loads of spin as he dismissed Ollie Pope (60), caught whereas reverse sweeping and Harry Brook (8), who went for an extravagant attacking shot and was caught at lengthy off.

    England reached 180-5 in an prolonged 2-1/2 hour first session because of Friday prayers after Ben Stokes gained his second successive toss and elected to bat on a wicket Pakistan has ready in a hope to assist its three spinners and stage the three-match sequence.

    Stokes was unbeaten on 18 and Wills Jacks was but to attain his first runs on the break of the second Test.

    Crawley and Duckett smashed centuries in England’s landmark 74-run victory within the first Test at Rawalpindi and so they noticed off Pakistan’s a lot weakened tempo assault of Faheem Ashraf and Mohammad Ali on a dry Multan Cricket Stadium wicket with ease.

    Ashraf and Ahmed had been the 2 pressured modifications Pakistan needed to make after quick bowlers Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah each had been dominated out with accidents and the house staff additionally dropped skilled No. 3 batter Azhar Ali due to lack of kind and introduced in allrounder Mohammad Nawaz.

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    Crawley made 19 earlier than Ahmed’s properly flighted supply jagged again into the righthander and knocked off the stumps when captain Babar Azam turned to his spinners within the ninth over.

    Pope, one of many 4 century-makers at Rawalpindi, and Duckett each efficiently overturned on-field umpires’ lbw choices towards them and added a brisk 79 off 61 balls as they didn’t worry to reverse sweep each spinners Zahid Mahmood and Ahmed.

    Duckett accomplished his half century off 40 balls earlier than Ahmed struck had the lefthander trapped leg earlier than wicket after which Root was trapped lbw on the backfoot to Ahmed’s sharp turner.

    England didn’t decelerate and its fearless method to attain at a speedy tempo value them when Pope was caught at level whereas going for a reverse sweep and Brook gave a skied shot to Nawaz towards Ahmed.

    Fast bowler Mark Wood was the one change in England’s enjoying XI from the primary Test at Rawalpindi the place the guests made a world-record 506-4 on the primary day.

    Wood, enjoying his first Test since March, changed injured Liam Livingstone after the allrounder flew again dwelling after injuring his knee through the first Test.

  • England strike late on day three to maintain their hopes alive to grab the check match at Pindi

    England struck with 4 late wickets on Saturday to revive its hopes of victory towards Pakistan with two days left within the first cricket check the place seven batters have up to now scored centuries.

    Pakistan reached 499-7 in its first innings on the lifeless wicket and nonetheless trailed by 158 runs at stumps on the third day with play once more ending early due to fading gentle.

    Captain Babar Azam (136), Imam-ul-Haq (121) and Abdullah Shafique (114) all hit tons on a run-friendly wicket which even Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ramiz Raja feels is just not a terrific advert for check cricket.

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    But England hit again after tea when Ollie Robinson broke the 123-run stand between Babar and debutant Saud Shakeel (37). Robinson discovered the skin fringe of Shakeel’s bat and Babar, who hit 19 fours and a six in his eighth hundred, performed a minimize towards offspinner Will Jacks (3-132).

    “That wicket (of Babar) was almost the game-changing moment,” Jacks stated after bowling 33 overs within the innings up to now. “It was a great day for us… and as the match goes on, the pitch will get more turn. There is so much time left in the game (to win).”

    Veteran James Anderson (1-47) used all his 175-test expertise on an unresponsive wicket for the bowlers, earlier than lastly he received his first wicket in his nineteenth over when Mohammad Rizwan (29) was caught at brief mid-wicket.

    A primary wicket in Pakistan, @jimmy9! 🤩

    🇵🇰 #PAKvENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 pic.twitter.com/dSTvQEaktQ

    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) December 3, 2022

    Babar and Shakeel denied England success within the center session and guided Pakistan to 411-3 by tea with the Pakistan skipper dominating each spin and tempo.

    Babar was the seventh batter in three days to notch 100 in England’s first check in Pakistan in 17 years after the guests had posted 657 all out on the again of tons of from England openers Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett, Harry Brook and Ollie Pope.

    “We still have six sessions and if they get a lead then pressure will be on us,” Imam stated. “We have faced such situations before… the ball has started keeping slightly low and (the pitch) will definitely change on the last two days.”

    Babar used his toes properly towards the spinners and raised his half century off 68 balls when he lifted Jack Leach (2-160) over broad mid-on for a six after lunch.

    He reached his hundred off 126 balls when he thumped a backfoot cover-driven boundary.

    An exceptional innings by @babarazam258 👑

    He brings up his 8️⃣th Test 💯 👏#PAKvENG | #UKSePK pic.twitter.com/kVCeWOmcVS

    — Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) December 3, 2022

    Earlier, Imam and Shafique struck centuries after Pakistan resumed on 181-0 earlier than throwing away their wickets.

    Azhar Ali (27) received a life when Crawley couldn’t grasp a troublesome likelihood at leg slip towards Anderson earlier than he was trapped leg earlier than wicket by Leach after England took the second new ball instantly after 80 overs.

    Left-handed Imam, who made centuries in every innings in the course of the drawn check towards Australia in March on the identical venue, scored 121 off 207 balls. Shafique, a centurion in the identical check towards Australia, hit a extra typical 114 off 203 balls.

    It was the primary time in check historical past that openers from each groups had scored centuries within the first innings.

    Only 14 wickets fell over 5 days on an analogous kind of pitch when Australia final performed on the Pindi Cricket Stadium and the wicket was rated as “below average” by ICC match referee Ranjan Madugalle. The pitch acquired one demerit level in consequence.

    Shafique accomplished his 100 off 177 balls with a single after lofting Joe Root for a six on the legside earlier than Imam additionally reached the milestone with a flicked boundary off Root.

    With the wicket doing little for the England spinners, Imam threw away his wicket by unnecessarily going for a giant shot towards Leach and holed out at lengthy on. Leach then trapped Azhar lbw on the again foot on the stroke of lunch.

  • England vs Pakistan: Will Jacks banking on ‘crazy moments’ for England to win 1st Test

    Pakistan vs England: Will Jacks reckoned that the Three Lions want a couple of ‘crazy moments’ in the event that they need to win the primary Test on a lovely batting floor in Rawalpindi

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 2, 2022 20:24 IST

    ENG vs PAK: Will Jacks banking on ‘crazy moments’ for England to win 1st Test. Courtesy: AP

    By India Today Web Desk: Right-hander Will Jacks reckoned that England want a couple of ‘crazy moments’ to safe victory of their opening Test in opposition to Pakistan on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.

    At Stumps on Day 2, Pakistan, led by Babar Azam, are trailing by 476 runs with all their 10 wickets in tact after England racked up a humongous rating of 657 all out in 101 overs.

    Jacks, who scored 30 runs off 29 balls whereas batting at No.8, stated that the pitch is nice for batting, however has began to point out indicators of indifference.

    “It’s a nice wicket to bat on, as you can tell by our score. It will be tough to get 20 wickets, but we’ll definitely give it a crack. When we were batting it started to get a little bit lower, so hopefully we get one to stay low,” Jacks was quoted as saying.

    “We’re going to have to take a few worldie catches and have a few crazy moments go our way to win. There’s a lot of cricket left to be played. They have batted well, which they’re allowed to do. We’ll be pushing for a win over the next three days,” he said.

    Wills stated that his Test debut wasn’t pre-decided and it was solely due to Ben Foakes’s sickness that he acquired an opportunity to don the whites in Rawalpindi.

    “It was quite literally two minutes before I got the cap. I knew going to bed the night before that we had 13 players and staff ill, seven or eight players, so there might be a possibility I’d need to be called up. I was about 50% mentally ready. Ben Stokes pulled me to one side and said ‘Foakesy’s ill, you’re in’. It didn’t give me any time to get nervous,” Jacks added.

    After amassing over 500 runs on Day 1, England carried on with their good work on the second day. Jacks, Harry Brook and Ollie Robinson added some useful runs and took the Three Lions to one among their highest workforce totals within the historical past of Test cricket.

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  • Virus outbreak in ENG camp could delay 1st Test in Rawalpindi

    England and Pakistan have determined to delay the beginning of the first Test between the 2 nations as a result of an outbreak of virus within the Three Lions’ camp.

    “The Pakistan Cricket Board and England and Wales Cricket Board today discussed the outbreak of viral infection in the England men’s Test team camp and unanimously agreed to delay the decision on the commencement of the first Test, which is due to start on Thursday, until 0730 Pakistan time tomorrow (Thursday),” an ECB launch said.

    “The two boards also agreed, subject to the England players not recovering well enough to take the field on Thursday morning, then the Test will commence on Friday and will be a five-day match. In this scenario, the schedule of the second Test in Multan and the third Test in Karachi will remain unaffected and will be played as per original schedule i.e. 9-13 and 17-21 December, respectively,” it added.

    We have agreed with @TheRealPCB to delay the choice on the graduation of the primary Test, which is because of begin on Thursday, till 2.30am GMT (7.30am native) tomorrow.#PAKvENG

    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) November 30, 2022

    Earlier within the day, England’s preparation for the opening take a look at was thrown into disarray by a virus sweeping by means of the camp. Captain Ben Stokes is amongst a number of England gamers who skipped Wednesday’s non-obligatory coaching session after being laid low by the bug.

    Former captain Joe Root was one among 5 gamers who did attend. “As far as I’m aware, a few guys are not feeling 100%,” Root instructed a information convention.
    “I didn’t really feel nice yesterday and I awakened quite a bit higher immediately. So, hopefully, it’s a 24-hour virus. Don’t assume it’s like meals poisoning or COVID or something like that.

    “We are trying to do absolutely everything right to make sure we are prepared for this game.”

    England have named their beginning 11, giving a take a look at debut to Liam Livingstone and recalling Ben Duckett to open with Zak Crawley.

    England are on their first take a look at tour of Pakistan since 2005. They have employed a chef for the tour after receiving suggestions from gamers who visited Pakistan in September-October for a seven-match T20 sequence.

    (With Reuters inputs)

  • Troubled World Cupper to World T20: How psychologist’s recommendation made Ben Stokes England’s final motion hero

    “You don’t want to play for England. You just want to piss it up the wall with your mates, and have a good time” – Andy Flower, former England coach, to Ben Stokes.

    On a dry sizzling July day in London in 2013, Ben Stokes sidled into the seats within the stands at Lord’s, and sat subsequent to the psychologist Mark Bawden. He had struggled by the season, was feeling down along with his efficiency, a lot in order that his captain at Durham, Paul Collingwood, had texted him, ‘are you ok?’

    He wasn’t. But he didn’t wish to share his heartache along with his team-mates as he didn’t wish to short-change his boisterous tattoo-star picture. But he realised he needed to confide in somebody, and he determined Bawden was the go-to man.

    Bawden, who has labored with a couple of English groups, heard him out earlier than giving his verdict that Stokes was affected by ‘Bottle Bottle Bang’ syndrome’. In regular lingo, it meant Stokes was bottling up his frustrations inside him, and it retains festering inside till it explodes. He needed to loosen up, else the wretched rut would proceed. It had been a poor summer time mentally and the shot-making potential was on the wane.

    And the 12 months had began terribly when in January, he and Matt Coles have been requested to depart an England Lions tour of Australia after being caught ingesting too late into the night time. Andy Flower was one of many personnel concerned in taking the powerful resolution, and he even had a couple of powerful issues to say to the teen. Bottle bottle bang.

    Not that he wanted only a solitary chat with the psychologist. In March 2014, the frustration of a poor tour in West Indies, noticed Stokes punching the locker within the dressing room, breaking his hand, forcing him to overlook the World T20. More meet-ups with Bawden happened and he was even given a routine when offended: go to the dressing room and pack up your kit-bag. That packing course of apparently has helped Stokes in calming down a couple of instances.

    Bawden, the psychologist who helped Stokes, likes to categorise his sporting topics in two varieties: Assassins (thinkers) and Warriors (feelers). He places Alastair Cook within the former, and Stokes after all falls within the ‘warrior’ class.

    “One thing I try and do is de-myth confidence for people, who often think that confidence is having absolutely no doubt and unbreakable self-belief. In normal life, everybody experiences fear, anxiety and self-doubt,” Bawden as soon as stated. “My job is helping people realise that confidence isn’t the absence of fear or doubt, it’s trust in your method.”

    More unhealthy issues would occur although. We know the backstory: the pub battle that threatened his profession, the dying of his father, the mental-health wrestle, the Test captaincy recharge with Brendon McCullum, the ODI World Cup star, and now the T20 World Cup champion, in a format that Michael Vaughan thought he isn’t enthused about a lot. Oh, effectively.

    Another T20 ultimate would give him the best blues but. The West Indian Carlos Brathwaite, a batmaker, had smashed the residing daylights out of him to win the World T20 ultimate. In a Kolkata minute, issues had threatened to show dire. England had nearly two palms on the trophy however Stokes had let the grasp slip, and misplaced them the trophy. On that night time, within the staff bus, he couldn’t assist refreshing the Twitter feed and was pleasantly shocked to obtain extra assist than abuse. And this time round, he didn’t bottle his feelings, and obtained over the debacle as quickly because it was humanly attainable.

    More psychological well being points would flip up, he would publicly acknowledge them, take a break – a transfer that Ravi Shastri would reward and use to induce Virat Kohli to take a break lest it will get an excessive amount of for him. Stokes would come again, take over the Test captaincy, and even when McCullum had any doubts about his method, Stokes didn’t. Even Joe Root, the previous captain, could be moved to say that he has by no means loved cricket as a lot as he has performed beneath Stokes.

    Now, one factor remained. The T20 World Cup. When he got here to the World Cup, he hadn’t performed a T20 sport in 18 months. Buttler sat him down for a chat. “When we got here, before we’d even had a training session, he sat me down for five or 10 minutes and just said: ‘This is your role, this is what I want you to do,’” he stated. “That 10-minute chat just made me really understand the way in which I can affect the game.” And Stokes would ship what was required of him in that must-win sport in opposition to Sri Lanka that put England into the semi-finals. And then now, within the ultimate.

    That belief in his technique that Bawden talked about then has meant Stokes doesn’t get too flustered if he finally ends up miscuing a few of his photographs. He poked and missed a couple of balls from Naseem Shan and Haris Rauf however in contrast to the younger Harry Brook, who tried to counter-attack with a slog, Stokes didn’t lose his head. He would even stroll throughout to Brook to calm him down.

    With 38 runs wanted off 26 balls, Ben Stokes did a Stokes. Nerveless, formidable, and one who trusts his personal sport. Against him was Shadab Khan, an excellent leggie. First ball, Stokes backed away to slam it to long-off boundary. Nasser Hussain began to show right into a Bill Lawry on air. The subsequent was a thriller: Stokes backed away, Shadab held his nerve and for a very long time, it appeared he had his man. Stokes had heaved it on the up and the white ball seemingly hung within the air. The long-on fielder jumped however grasped skinny air. Stokes, and England have been away. “What about this bloke Stokes. What about big occasions? Staggering,” Ian Smith as ever with the pithily insightful cries that might keep within the thoughts for lengthy.

    Around Christmas time in 2013, Stokes was strolling along with his girlfriend Clare – Stokes turned a father on the age of 21, and has a son and a daughter – the couple chanced upon Andy Flower in a chat with different coaches. He informed Clare that, “I really want to tell him, I told you so, I did have it in me.” Clare restrained him, saying Flower will need to have used it to inspire him and to not disparage, and Stokes knew she, and Flower, have been certainly proper.

    During that Ashes tour, whereas taking a single, he had collided with Mitchell Johnson, and obtained a verbal spray: “What the hell ya doing, ya little sh**?”. As it has turned out, today Stokes is aware of precisely what he’s doing: scoring runs, taking wickets for England, seizing the massive moments, and successful trophies for England.

  • Anil Kumble backs England to carry out properly in opposition to Pakistan in T20 World Cup 2022: They have expertise and firepower

    PAK, ENG have to be careful for swing at MCG: Kumble

    New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 12, 2022 23:47 IST

    Kumble backs England to carry out properly in opposition to Pakistan in T20 World Cup 2022. Courtesy: AP

    By India Today Web Desk: Legendary spinner Anil Kumble reckoned that Pakistan and England batters want to deal with the swing, tempo and bounce on the Melbourne Cricket Ground within the remaining of the T20 World Cup 2022 on Sunday, November 13.

    England will go into the match after beating Rohit Sharma’s India by 10 wickets on the Adelaide Oval. Jos Buttler and Alex Hales’ unbeaten 170-run stand helped the Three Lions win the semi-final with as many as 24 balls to spare.

    However, Kumble, India’s main wicket-taker in Test cricket, mentioned that the pitch on the MCG could be loads totally different in comparison with the one in Adelaide.

    “We have seen at MCG there has been a lot more swing, bounce and pace. I don’t think it will be like the Adelaide pitch. Pakistan will have to watch out for that and so do England. They had two good opening partnerships in the last two games, but they still have to watch out for that swing,” Kumble was quoted as saying to ESPNcricinfo.

    Kumble, within the meantime, additionally mentioned that the British workforce can have the higher hand going into the mega conflict in Melbourne.

    “England certainly have the upper hand in terms of the experience and the firepower that they have and the options that’s available for them in the bowling line-up as well. But Pakistan will be formidable. Which Pakistan will turn up on Sunday, that’s the big question,” he added.

    It’s pertinent to notice that Pakistan have by no means crushed England in T20 World Cups. Moreover, each Pakistan and England are but to win a T20I on the iconic venue in Melbourne.

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    Nov 12, 2022

  • How the Buttler-Mott partnership helped England storm the T20 World Cup closing downing India

    When Surya Kumar Yadav walked into the center, Ben Stokes was bowling with 4 fielders on the leg aspect and one fielder on the duvet boundary on the off-side.

    The bowler saved aiming on center and leg. Which didn’t permit Surya to finish his early easing-in routine – the place he tries to discover a boundary within the first four-five deliveries to get going. England had gotten him stressed – a master-stroke by Jos Buttler.

    The world’s No 1 T20I batter tried to pressure the difficulty, as an alternative of doing what he does greatest, which is timing the ball. He finally prime edged one – giving a fortunate break. However Adil Rashid had executed the plan – to toss one outdoors off-stump a lot slower and wider, and pressure the shot. Once once more, SKY, as an alternative of making an attempt to time the ball and discover the hole, had tried to loft it, which prompted his downfall.

    In his personal phrases… 🗣

    The Matches That Made Me 🏏#T20WorldCup | @JosButtler pic.twitter.com/jCU9dzbKXp

    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) November 11, 2022

    The extent of planning and analysis in making an attempt to cramp the batter confirmed the form of captain Jos Buttler was and the way this workforce was run.

    Before the essential semifinal sport, two of their starters Dawid Malan and Mark Wood have been declared unavailable by damage. One could also be cheeky and say they didn’t want Malan. Nonetheless, the left-hander, 35, has been one of many go-to guys when it comes to management of the aspect with lots of expertise underneath his belt.

    Mark Wood was a miss although. The 32-year-old has been bowling thunderbolts this yr since recovering from an damage.

    Despite lacking each, Jos Buttler’s males thumped India by 10 wickets. It was a sport which regarded like England have been enjoying 2022 model of T20 cricket and India was enjoying the 2015 mannequin.

    A variety of credit score would go to Eoin Morgan in English cricket books for what he did to rework the one-day aspect. Taking the reins from somebody like him, Jos Buttler has had his ups and downs initially. But now the workforce has change into Buttler’s workforce and his mark is seen.

    Matthew Mott and Jos Buttler’s partnership

    Trevor Bayliss is arguably the most effective coaches of the trendy period. The Australian alongside Eoin Morgan delivered the primary ICC 50-over World Cup for England. The duo had additionally helped them attain the T20 WC closing in 2016 which the workforce misplaced narrowly.

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    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) November 11, 2022

    Later, Chris Silverwood did are available and took on the reins as coach. However, the workforce had the Bayliss-Morgan philosophy embedded into it fully by that point.

    However, by the point Matthew Mott got here in, Morgan had retired and therefore Mott’s first problem was to have his personal imprint. The workforce firstly of the Mott-Buttler marketing campaign got here underneath immense scrutiny. England misplaced to India 2-1 in two T20I bilateral sequence to each India and South Africa at dwelling.

    The purple ball cricket however was booming on the time. It was the primary time since 2015 that England’s white-ball aspect (with haunting reminiscences of Adelaide) was underneath stress.

    “I think there’s more time than you think, but what needs to happen in the short term is to be really honest about where the group’s at,” Mott mentioned chatting with Sky Sports.

    Preparing for our #T20WorldCup semi-final on the Adelaide Oval! 🏟🏏💥 pic.twitter.com/8XqRFsmqED

    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) November 8, 2022

    “A lot of people reflect back on the past about how great a team this is. This is a very different unit at the moment. We need to acknowledge that and make sure we live in the present and work on what we can get better at.” he added.

    The former Australian ladies’s coach saved backing Jos Buttler and requested for some persistence on the time.

    The persistence proven actually bore fruit on the Adelaide Oval on Thursday towards India.

    Let’s get Hales in

    Alex Hales had been ignored by English cricket for a very long time because of points outdoors the sector. The opener regardless of setting the franchise scene on fireplace in numerous leagues throughout the globe was consistently ignored by ECB.

    Nonetheless, Jason Roy scored 206 runs this yr at a median of 18.73 and a strike price of 104. With the workforce dropping in all of the white ball bilaterals at dwelling and the T20 World cup quickly approaching, it turned inevitable to interchange Roy.

    “This is one of the best days of my career for sure.” 🙌#T20WorldCup | @AlexHales1 pic.twitter.com/NrfQkLKaxH

    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) November 10, 2022

    England’s tour to Pakistan in September is the place Alex Hales was introduced into the squad.

    The 33-year-old was the top-scorer within the Australian Big Bash League for Sydney Thunder within the 2020-21 season and given the World Cup was in Australia it was a masterstroke by Mott and Buttler to offer Hales the style of worldwide cricket once more simply earlier than the World Cup.

    Hales had a tough time early on. He did sufficient to maintain his place within the bilateral sequence towards Pakistan however failed within the preliminary few video games within the World Cup. The opener caught kind towards New Zealand within the group sport on the Gabba. He made 52 (40) adopted by a 47 (30) on the SCG towards Sri Lanka and a harmful 86 (47) to thrash India out of the event and take England to the ultimate. The batter has scored 211 runs at a median of 52 and a strike price of 148 within the event. He was awarded the Player Of the Match towards India.

    Sam Curran 2.0

    Sam Curran was a nice shock for the English administration and supporters. England’s loss of life bowling within the absence of Jofra Archer has been underneath stress and letting the workforce down in huge tournaments in stress conditions many occasions earlier than.

    In the 2016 closing, Ben Stokes conceded 4 sixes in a row of the final 4 balls of the innings at hand the sport over to West Indies. In the semifinal towards New Zealand in Abu Dhabi England managed to offer away 60 runs within the final 4 overs. New Zealand chasing 167 had been 107-3 after 15 overs and Morgan’s males conceded the rating with an over to spare.

    So Sam Curran had been one of many revelations for England from the Pakistan sequence. He turned England’s go-to bowler on the loss of life, conceding a mere 34 runs from 41 deliveries within the last-four-over stage at this World Cup, earlier than the India sport.

    A successful begin to our World Cup marketing campaign in Perth! 💪🏏🌏🏆#T20WorldCup | #England pic.twitter.com/hXXHU99vuM

    — England Cricket (@englandcricket) October 23, 2022

    L Balaji who labored with Curran at CSK recollects his liking for creating variations. “I remember he wanted to master the slower bouncer for example. He figured with the dimensions of the ground – he was always studying them and you can see it reflected in his bowling at different grounds – a slow bouncer was always a good weapon. How hard he worked at that for hours. He also likes his quicker surprise bouncer and always tests out the batsmen,” Balaji instructed Express forward of the semifinals.

    “One definite area of improvement was how well he uses the crease these days. If there is no swing on offer, he will right away go around the stumps. His angles of release, both over and round, are always varying; small tweaks but effective.”

    “With his slightly round-armish action, the wide outside-off yorker was always going to be a difficult ball to master. But he worked so hard at it. Not a surprise that all these little changes – the angles, the different deliveries are all coming on perfectly now,” he added.

    “I’ve always been in and out of the side, so when you play three or four [matches] in a row, you get that confidence,” mentioned Sam Curran in a World Cup press convention.

    Backing the match-winners

    Ben Stokes’ T20I file is mediocre, not like his Tests and ODI file. He averages 19 from 42 T20Is. With the array of choices accessible in gamers like Ben Duckett, and Phil Salt and a floater like David Wiley on the aspect, it was tempting to look the opposite method.

    However, Jos and Mott caught to their match-winner. Anyone who doubts the flexibility of Stokes to win the sport out of nowhere have to be residing underneath a rock while he smashed the Aussies in Headingly, and within the historic World Cup closing in 2019 towards the Black Caps.

    He hasn’t been at his classic greatest however he has been used as a bowler by Buttler to open the bowling. But through the left hander’s innings of 42*(36) when England misplaced their method in chasing a mediocre 142 towards Sri Lanka, the calmness and expertise of the person confirmed.

    Adil Rashid was declared the Man of The Match in that sport towards Sri Lanka. Another match-winner who struggled earlier than the World Cup.

    Making a comeback towards Pakistan in Pakistan, the leg-spinner had a troublesome previous time of it. But coming into the World Cup semifinal towards a rustic that boasts of their spin enjoying potential he delivered a superb 1-20 (4). The wicket he picked of Surya Kumar Yadav was the game-changer.

    “He may not have picked up the wickets that he usually does and certainly, from the outside, some people have said he wasn’t bowling as well. But from within the group, if you come and face him in the nets, he’s been bowling well and tonight he was exceptional.” Jos Buttler mentioned within the post-match press convention. Once once more Jos Buttler, in his personal calm and truthful method, noticed past numbers and superficial perceptions to select his personnel.