IND vs Eng 3rd Test: R Ashwin Question Ben Stokes’s batting credentials – ‘Except for that headingley heroes …’. Cricket news
R Ashwin has made a great attack on England captain Ben Stokes’s batting credentials. Ashwin explained the dismissal of Stokes in the second innings of the Edgbaston Test and criticized England’s ego for trying to make 608 runs instead of going for a draw.“Ben Stokes is a great player. I take my hat to him. But we need to remember one thing. What has he achieved as a batsman, leaving that headingley heroes in the Ashes?” Ashwin said on his Hindi YouTube channel “Ash ki baat,He said, “There is a need for readiness to play a Test match in a Test match – it is a problem from the leadership point of view. You are asking every batsman to know and play a cricket brand of cricket, so you only need to play the same way,” he said.Ashwin pointed to a technical shortage in Stokes’s batting.“Go and check for the dismissal of Ben Stokes against Washington Sundar. The ball is beautifully swept away, it came well, and I accept all these things – but he just pay attention to one thing: Vashi’s release is from the Wide of the Creeze. He has released it from the corner of the crease. He is completely straightforward like an arrow. The leg remains straight when you want to tonk the ball. In T20 cricket and white-ball cricket, you choose the first line given by hand, because the ball does not get so much flow and you can break it-but not in Test cricket, “he explained.
Ashwin then slammed England’s batting performance at a day 5.“You are batting at lunch stroke, the last day of the Test match.”“You rained, and only one thing you need was to attract the match. But you want to be right for your game style. Special instinct to hit the ball is the cost of these small dismissal.”
