IND vs ENG, third Test: England not slicing down on Bazball regardless of loss to India, says captain Stokes

Ben Stokes’ one hundredth Test might have led to precisely the alternative vogue than the one he would have wished for. But the England captain has burdened that England doesn’t must mood its ultra-aggressive method.

“No, not at all,” Stokes mentioned when requested in regards to the want for batters to mood down. “Our batting line-up is full of international class players. We give them the freedom to play what’s in front of them. You can see the difference in the two teams’ approaches playing out in India.

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“In the last two games, India put runs on the board (in) the way they want to operate. We have been able to do it at times but have not been able to sustain it for as long as we have wanted to,” he added.

With the sport within the steadiness after the second day’s play, due to Ben Duckett’s swashbuckling hundred, Joe Root tried reverse-ramp off Jasprit Bumrah on Saturday morning, was caught within the slips and the sport continued to slide away from England thereon.

Stokes admitted the dismissal was the turning level in hindsight.

“Yeah, because he got out to it, definitely was a turning point. Joe Root has scored nearly 12,000 runs, I think we can leave the decision-making and ‘why’ with Joe. I can understand why there would be frustration around that because of how good a player Joe is,” Stokes mentioned.