“Proud Of Their Efforts”: Ben Stokes Praises England Spinners After Ranchi Test Loss | Cricket News

England skipper Ben Stokes was happy with the way in which his spinners fought within the fourth Test, which the staff misplaced, and admitted that he could not have “asked anything more”. England’s younger spinners Shoaib Bashir and Tom Hartley put up a valiant effort and made India battle onerous for every run as they chased a modest complete and gained by 5 wickets. Bashir claimed back-to-back wickets to cut back the hosts to 120/5 and pull England again within the sport.

“I think it was a great Test match. If you see the scoreboard, it’ll say India won by 5 wickets, but it doesn’t give credit to the way things unfolded, the ebbs and flows on every single day. I can only be proud of my team, we ‘ve had some inexperienced spinners (Bashir and Hartley), but I’m proud of their efforts, they came here without a lot of exposure and the way they kept bowling, I can’t ask for anything more,” Stokes stated after the sport.

“Part of my captaincy is allowing the young guys to revel and the freedom to play in some difficult and intimidating conditions in India. I am a massive Test cricket fan, the numbers of youngsters coming along in both teams sets things up nicely for the future of Test cricket. Bashir, what a story, what a journey, taking eight wickets including a 5-fer against India after having hardly played a lot of cricket is superb. You want to win series, you want to play and win cricket matches,” Stokes added.

England’s downfall within the Test got here on Day 3, when Ravichandran Ashwin spun England utterly out of the sport and restricted them to a rating of 145.

Stokes talked about that interval and admitted that it was onerous to cope with the standard of India’s three star spinners.

“If you look yesterday, anything was possible, it was incredibly difficult batting against the spinners (Ashwin, Jadeja and Kuldeep), scoring became difficult and so was rotating the strike. We knew the pitch wouldn’t get any better, as we saw today. I don’t think the criticism of Joe Root has been fair, the sheer amount of cricket he’s played, got 12,000 Test runs. He’s incredible. I’ve been here for a couple of years (as captain) and my message is simple. The only thing I can say is we left nothing on the field, we’ve fought hard and I’m happy with that,” Stokes acknowledged.

On Day 4, Dhruv Jurel and Shubman Gill put up a 72-run stand to tug the hosts out of a troublesome scenario and steer India in the direction of victory. India are have clinched the sequence and are actually 3-1 up with yet another Test to be performed between the 2 groups.

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