Nasser Hussain says England faces a “some very important months” for their white ball game and has to process their filling tempo in 50 format.
The head of England of Brendon McCullum in Cuttack hoping for an improved performance in the second of the ODI series with three games after a drop in drums led to a four -won loss against armies in Nagpur.
The series serves as a heating of the ICC Champions trophy, which begins on February 19 Live in Heavenly cricket And he sees England drawn in the same group as Afghanistan, Australia and South Africa in the 50th team tour.
Thursday’s convincing loss came to England’s heels, losing 4-1 in the T20 series that opened the tour in India.
Speaking in the last edition of Sky Sports Cricket PodcastHussain said that while India boasted with scary force in depth, it was also visible for “plenty of time” that the white ball game in England was “far from where it was” under Eoin Morgan and Trevor Bayliss, Captain-Trainer combination that led Anna to her 2019 World Cup triumph.
“It’S’S’S SIMPLE PARANSS, HAVE?” Hussain said in conversation with his former England captain Michael Atherton in Podcast while they distributed the six games played in India so far.
“Most of the games, even T20, have been the period where they were in the game and then a clumsy mistake like him (about the end of Phil Salt in the first ODI). Then the spin comes, Ravindra Jadeja Bowls beautiful.
“T20 they lost and they lost a lot of those games for spin too.
“So India, undoubtedly the white ball in the final at the World Cup in Ahmedabad, they won the T20 World Cup, so they are a scary side of the white ball.
“And also the depth of Indian crickets. Abhishek Sharma in those T20 – Wow, what player. Shubman Gill turns inside. Virerat Kohli does not play. Whoever they choose, they are a wonderful side.
“But white ball crickets in England for some time now has been far away where it was under Morgan and Bayliss.
“So I think it’s a few very important months ahead.”
What should England do now to improve in the second ODI?
Captain Jos Buttler made it clear to the first ODI that England had to “double” in their aggressive approach with the stick in the second part of the tour, despite losses in the T20 series.
Buttler then said after Thursday’s subsequent loss that the team “should play better for longer, we have to execute our plans better.”
And in the midst of the focus on England’s ability to cope with the rotation of Bowlers India, Hussain argued: “You wouldn’t say has been through not receiving rotation.
“I know that Harry Brook really fought. Isn’t he?
“This side of England, whenever they are lost, the thing that is always required – are they going very aggressive? Now they have root there just to play that anchor role. He didn’t make enough time (in the first ODI). But I I think it’s that aggressive nature.
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Joe Root spoke to Mark Butcher if he thinks he forced himself to turn into the quarrel of England’s T20 side, saying he has to try himself and ‘will simply try to play the best cricket’ he can
“Eoin used to say that ’50 overs is not a lot of time, just go a lot for every delivery and see where you go to.” So maybe this is the point of mcculum, we have to get some pain to work outside the tempo.
“And we both said, they don’t play so much cricket.
“So it’s working on how long it is and how hard to go and when you don’t go so much.”
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