Captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum have promised to stick with England’s new attacking method regardless of being handed a heavy innings defeat within the first Take a look at towards South Africa.
The brand new England skipper and coach have adopted an aggressive method to the Take a look at enviornment, dubbed “Bazball”, chasing down spectacular targets to win matches towards New Zealand and India within the final two months with swashbuckling batting and bowling.
However they had been emphatically thumped by an innings and 12 runs at Lord’s within the first of a three-Take a look at sequence, as South Africa’s bowlers dominated supreme on Friday, bowling out England for 165 and 149.
Stokes, nevertheless, mentioned there could be no change when the second Take a look at begins at Previous Trafford subsequent Thursday.
“Completely not. You understand, I take a look at captains earlier than me and so they had been at all times going to get criticised at instances about the best way that they needed to play, and that’s simply half and parcel of the job,” he mentioned.
“We all know properly that once we carry out to the capabilities that we’re able to, then we will exit and placed on an unbelievable efficiency, like all people’s seen within the 4 video games earlier than.
“That is completely not a wake-up name or something like that. It was simply unlucky we’re unable to execute in the best way that we wish to play this week,” mentioned Stokes.
McCullum echoed the captain, rejecting the suggestion that the England batsmen might need been too cavalier towards a powerful bowling line-up.
“I don’t suppose so. I feel they had been maybe a contact timid. We method the sport with a transparent mentality about the best way we wish to play and we wish to be the perfect variations of ourself. It’s not at all times going to work,” he mentioned.
“As we mentioned on the time, you’ve acquired to buckle up for the journey. It’s not good at instances like this however we’ll come again sturdy,” insisted the previous New Zealand batsman.
“I feel we weren’t fairly capable of assault when the chance introduced itself. Then we acquired a few balls that removed a few our greatest gamers. That’s cricket. When you’ve got a winner, you’re going to have a loser, and South Africa deserved to win.”
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