Brendon McCullum And Ben Stokes
Brendon McCullum IND vs ENG Test Series: The Indian team won the fifth Test match against England by an innings and 64 runs. The bowlers and batsmen performed amazingly for Team India. Young players performed very strongly in the series. The Indian team won the series 4-1 at that time. When experienced players like Virat Kohli and Mohammed Shami were not playing in the Indian team. In front of the Indian young players, Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum had to lose the Test series for the first time in the baseball era. Now coach Brendon McCullum has given a big statement on the defeat.
McCullum gave this statement
After the ultra-aggressive approach did not work against India, England coach Brendon McCullum admitted that the team’s much-talked about ‘baseball’ style needed some changes. England had won the first Test match against India by 28 runs, but after this Team India made a comeback in the series by winning four consecutive Test matches. Brendon McCullum said that the way our weaknesses have been exposed in this series. We have to do deep introspection and make some changes in style.
‘Change is needed’
He said that the Indian team put pressure on us and we proved to be weak. With the ball, with the bat, he put us under pressure in every department of the game. This is the first series England has lost in the ‘baseball’ era of ultra-aggressive play. Ben Stokes and his team have not been able to register victory in the last three series, due to which questions are being raised on baseball. McCullum said that we will work on this in the next few months and ensure that we perform better when we return to the field in the next season. India did not let us play the way we wanted to play. We have to review our style and improve.
Team India reached number one in ICC test rankings
After losing the first match, Team India made a strong comeback and won four matches in the series. With this victory, Team India has reached number one in the ICC Test rankings. Young Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a lot of runs for the Indian team in the series. He scored 712 runs in the series, which included two double centuries. He emerged as the biggest match winner for the team. Apart from this, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel and Shubhman Gill also performed well as per the requirement.
(Input: PTI)
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