‘You know what you will be faced…’: Ben Stokes admits on simulating Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling in Nets
India’s star pacer Jasprit Bumrah was not there on the field for the second Test against England, yet the hosts received a dominant thrashing. Now the English team’s captain Ben Stokes and his team have to prepare for the bag full of tricks by the world-famous pacer- which is difficult to replicate even in the nets.
England lost the second Test by 336 runs, and the Indian team management did not field Jasprit Bumrah in order to manage his workload, to which Shubman Gill confirmed that he will be on the field for the third Test starting 10th July. Ben Stokes was not amused that he would be questioned about the fast bowling sensation for the hundred-thousandth time.
“I thought I’d get through a press conference without being asked about Jasprit Bumrah. We play against each other so often you know what you will be faced with so you put it into practise in training,” Stokes said at the post-match press conference.
On their bowling front, Stokes didn’t commit if Jofra Archer will be unleashed on the Indian batting line-up in the next game, starting July 10 “Again, it’ll be a decision that we have to make seeing how everyone pull up. We’ve had him here this week to get around the group and build him up with his workloads. Everyone’s in consideration for the game at Lord’s,” Stokes said.
“We’ve obviously had some unbelievable wins and some bad defeats. I feel I’m quite good and the team is quite good at staying level throughout those ups and downs. We knew coming into the series it wasn’t going to be easy,” the England skipper said. “Disappointed with the loss here as it would have been great to carry the momentum over from the first game but we don’t find ourselves sitting here like that,” he added.
“We have to wipe this one under the carpet as quickly as we can because Lord’s day one will be coming round pretty quickly. We will have one or two days to get the bodies right and recover and all of sudden we will be out there flipping the coin. It’s about staying as level as you possibly can and not getting too up or low staying true to the fundamentals of what’s got this team to where we are,” Stokes concluded.
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