'When you're not scoring runs, there's a build-up of pressure and momentum from certain bowlers on you, so I'd let Dan Lawrence have a go.'
'Stokes is an excellent player of fast bowling. He is hurried with Bumrah.'
Test cricket will see two players featuring in their 100th game together for only the fourth time when India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and England batter Jonny Bairstow take the field in Dharamsala on Thursday.
Since embracing Bazball, England are yet to lose a Test series, while India remain unbeaten at home since 2012-13.
The International Cricket Council has come under fire for having different rules and regulations for the two semi-finals of the T20 World Cup.
Ben Stokes's England were panned by former captains after their humiliating 434-run loss against India in the 3rd Test in Rajkot on Sunday.
DK finished as an IPL winner with close to 5000 runs over 17 seasons besides taking 145 catches and effecting 37 stumpings.
The yorker that cleaned up Ollie Pope's stumps on Saturday, February 3, 2024 on Day 2 of the second England-India Test at the Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA cricket stadium in Visakhapatnam.
A massive turnout can be expected at Ahmedabad, however, when India face arch-rivals Pakistan on October 14.
Former England skipper Michael Atherton said that despite ICC's profit-sharing model being flawed, it wouldn't face any pushback.
'I remember my first call to him, it was in Kolkata. I asked him would he be interested in Test cricket. He said that would be the biggest day of his life.'
Hussain said Stokes was "naturally gifted" but England would have to be sure he can cope with the demands of the role.
New Zealand have shown they are the strongest team across all formats of the game after reaching the final of the Twenty20 World Cup, former England captain Michael Atherton said.
England's latest version of cricket is set for its biggest test as they face world champions Australia in a bid to reclaim the Ashes.
'We have had champions, we have had legends, but we have never had another Sachin Tendulkar and we never will.'
'I know how hard he has worked to try to get back fit and I hope it is not too bad and he can get back as soon as possible.'
The opening match of the series begins in Brisbane on December 8, with Australia playing their first Test since losing to India in January.
England cricketers had no role in the team's decision to abandon their tour of Pakistan next month, the players' union has said.
Joe Root has stepped down as England's Test captain, the country's cricket board said on Friday, succumbing to pressure from influential figures within the game following a run of poor results capped by dispiriting tours of Australia and the Caribbean.
The actor aces the sirsasana perfectly with the cricketer holding her feet to help her.
He said sharing a commentary box in Australia in 2013 with his broadcasting hero Bill Lawry was a "real highlight".
Atherton said Kohli looked in his comfort zone during his knock on Sunday.
'The Indian players are going from this bubble to an even tighter bubble.' 'Ten days more of quarantine would do their heads in.'
Ashwin said Kohli only expressed his opinion that the WTC final should be a best of three series but never demanded the format to be changed.
The English cricketers should not miss international duty at the expense of playing in the IPL, former England captain Michael Atherton has said in the wake of the team's disastrous Ashes campaign in Australia.
England are being "too nice" and need to "get nasty" against Australia in the Boxing Day Test to fight back in the Ashes series, said former skipper Michael Vaughan.
The BCCI stands to lose revenues to the tune of Rs 2500 crore if the 2021 edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) is not completed.
Root enjoyed the utmost respect of players in the dressing room and that there was no clear 'natural successor'.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the interesting numbers from Day 3 of the India-England Test at Lord's.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the interesting numbers from Day 4 of the India-England Test at Trent Bridge.
Ian Bell's controversial "non dismissal" during the second Test between England and India subverted the laws of the game and had nothing to do with the Spirit of Cricket, former England captain Michael Atherton said on Monday.
Former England skipper Michael Atherton waxed eloquence on Ricky Ponting, saying Australia's captain left a 'mighty stamp' with his fighting hundred in his team's quarter-final loss to India in the World Cup.
Former England captain Michael Atherton says young Pakistan pacer Mohammad Aamir, implicated in the spot-fixing scandal, was in the "the grip of evil" and should be given a second chance by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Former fast bowler Darren Gough vouched for England opener Dom Sibley's ability to play spin, saying if he could dominate India's Ravichandran Ashwin on way to a double ton in county cricket, he is good enough to play any spinner in the world.
Head coach Ravi Shastri has called Virat Kohli the 'boss' of Indian cricket and said the support staff is there to 'take the burden off' the skipper.
Buoyed by their crushing 157-run victory in the fourth Test at The Oval on Monday, a confident Indian team will seek to continue their winning momentum in the fifth and final Test against England at Manchester.
Former England captain Michael Atherton believes the ICC should consider allowing more substitutions for injuries which require players to visit a hospital for treatment during a match amid the coronavirus pandemic. International cricket is set to resume after the coronavirus hiatus with England scheduled to host the West Indies team in a bio-secure environment for a proposed three-match series in July.
Scoffed at by purists but wildly popular among fans, the Indian Premier League has been rated by former England captain Michael Atherton as one of the 10 most significant events that changed the face of cricket last decade.
Team India head coach Ravi Shastri intends to step down from his role after the T20 World Cup. He says he has achieved everything there was and does not want to overstay his welcome.
'I don't think you can teach a bowler to be aggressive -- it has to be something within you'
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