The captain of the England Cricket team, Alastair Cook, has said that the pitch in the third ODI against India was a flat one and the England team should have put more runs on the board.
The English batting order failed for the second time in the series and managed to score only 155 runs in the third ODI against India which was played at HEC International Cricket Stadium Complex, Ranchi.
The opening batsman of the England T20 team, Alex Hales, has said that he wants to represent England in all formats of the game. He doesn’t want to be considered as a T20 specialist.
In the first T20 match between Indian and England which was played at Pune, Hales scored a fine half century. He scored 56 runs off just 35 balls and gave England a blistering start. At one point of time, Hales was playing with a strike rate of 200, but, when Yuvraj Singh came into the attack, Hales’ strike rate came down a bit and eventually, it was Yuvraj who sent Hales to the pavilion.
The England cricket team lost three quick wickets in the last hour of the second day of the first test match against India and got into trouble. The Indian team declared its first innings on 521/8 and the England batsmen had to face 18 overs on the second day.
The England Cricket team has been defeated by West Indies in its first Super 8 match in the World T20 Championship played at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium. West Indies won the match by 15 runs and managed to get two points. This was the second consecutive defeat of England in the tournament. The English team had to suffer a humiliating defeat against India in its last group stage match.
James Anderson has been included in the England T20 squad on the place of Steven Finn for the three T20 matches against South Africa. Anderson was not a part of the original squad, but, due to Finn’s back injury, the English selectors decided to call back Anderson in the T20 squad.
The skipper of the England cricket team, Andrew Strauss, has said that Graeme Swann’s presence in the second test match at Headingly could have made a lot of difference. The England team went into the second test match without a specialist spinner. Graeme Swann was not included in the team and he was replaced by the young bowling sensation Steve Finn. But, this decision of the team management proved to be wrong. Finn wasn’t able to make any impact on the South African batsmen. The Proteas batsmen negotiated Finn with ease.
England Cricket Team has performed sensationally in the recently played ODI series against Australia. England has defeated Australia by an efficient margin of 4-0 in that series and climbed up to no. 3 in the ICC ODI rankings. Everything seemed to go well for England in that series. The batsmen as well as the bowlers have done their jobs. England looked a stabilized side in that series.
Stuart Meaker or Jade Dernbach or even both could become the first players of the Surrey Brown Caps to take to the field following the tragic death of young Welsh batsman Tom Maynard earlier in the week as they are in contention for a place in the lineup of the England Cricket Team to take on the West Indies in the One Day International match at Headingley.
The selectors of the England and Wales Cricket Board have named an unchanged England Cricket Team to take on the West Indies in the second Test of the three match Test series where they already have a 1-0 lead over the Caribbean.
The selectors of the England and Wales Cricket Board have retained most of the players from the England Cricket Team that failed miserably during the side’s tour of the United Arab Emirates with middle order batsman Eoin Morgan being the most high profile casualty from the side.
England were thrashed 3-0 by a young and inexperienced Pakistan side in the Test series and being the world number one side in Test cricket as per the rankings released by the International Cricket Council or the ICC, it was bound to be a bitter pill for the ECB to swallow.