Ben Stokes defends England approach despite slumping to huge defeat against India in third Test | X4V5VP4 | 2024-02-20 16:08:01
Ben Stokes has as soon as once more defended England's strategy despite being thumped by India on the fourth day of the third Check, with the 434-run defeat their largest loss because the second World Conflict.
The tourists had wilted on day three in Rajkot, with a batting collapse followed by a century from Yashasvi Jaiswal seeing India rack up a 322-run lead going into the fourth day.
England had been hoping for early wickets in an effort to mount an unlikely comeback, however 118 runs have been added in the morning session earlier than the irrepressible Jaiswal came again out to bat after retiring harm on Saturday.
He powered his method to a chic and damaging unbeaten double century – matching the world document for sixes in a Check innings within the process – whereas Sarfaraz Khan delivered one other punchy cameo as India turned the first aspect to declare towards England in the Bazball era.
The visitors returned to the crease needing to attain 557 runs to win and what appeared like an extremely tall order turned mission unattainable inside minutes as Ben Duckett was run out in a mix-up with Zak Crawley – with the latter also on the receiving end of a really harsh umpire's call not long after.
A flurry of fast wickets adopted, with Joe Root and Stokes both out sweeping, as England collapsed in extraordinary style once again.
Tom Hartley and Ben Foakes put up some delicate measure of resistance and very briefly threatened to take the Check to a fifth day, however India's spin assault finally proved an excessive amount of.
Ravindra Jadeja was the decide of the bowlers for the rampant hosts, taking 5 wickets and claiming the match-ending wicket of Mark Wood who had entered T20 mode late within the day to publish a rating of 33 – double that of the subsequent highest run scorer.
England ended up dropping by an unlimited 434 runs, which represents their second-biggest defeat ever behind solely a 562-run defeat towards Australia in 1934, while it is India's document profitable margin – an astonishing turnaround given they have been 33-3 on the first morning.
Asked where things went flawed for his aspect, Stokes stated: 'Look, Ben Duckett performed an unbelievable innings [on day two] and that was the tone we needed to set throughout our entire innings with the bat first time round.
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'For us it was about figuring out that chance to actually attempt to push the scoreboard on and rise up as close as we probably might to India's complete.
'I truly needed to be bowling yesterday sooner or later, though it came earlier than we initially needed, simply because of how we thought the wicket was going. We needed to attempt to push the game on as much as we probably might and typically gameplans don't work out and that's just sport typically.'
Asked about recommendations his aspect had been too reckless in their strategy, Stokes continued: 'Everyone has obtained a notion and an opinion about things, but the individuals up in the dressing room are the individuals whose opinions really matter to us.
'We all know that things don't all the time work out precisely the way you want it to. So 2-1 down in the collection, we've nonetheless obtained two games left, so we've still received an excellent probability to go house with the trophy at Three-2.
'We depart this recreation behind us identical to we left the first and second video games behind us even with those outcomes. We all know we've acquired to win the subsequent two games to win the collection and that's something we'll try to do.'
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