“Be part of A Circus”: England Nice Blasts Ben Stokes And Co, Namedrops IPL In Rant

Former England participant Geoffrey Boycott has lashed out on the England cricket staff for its poor present, of late. Jos Buttler-led England had a forgettable ODI World Cup in India. Within the quadrennial match, the facet completed on the seventh spot within the ten-team desk with solely three wins to its credit score. It received poorer for England because the facet’s much-talked ‘Bazball’ strategy within the Take a look at format noticed it dropping 1-4 to India. Boycott acknowledged that “Take a look at cricket is just not an exhibition” and the gamers ought to “be part of a circus” if the outcomes do not matter to them.

“All we’ve got had over the previous couple of months is the Twenty20 World Cup within the Caribbean, the place England carried out poorly, the Indian Premier League, which helped a couple of of our reasonable to common Take a look at gamers get wealthy, and earlier than {that a} depressing 4-1 Take a look at sequence loss in India the place England began properly, however in the long run had been hammered,” Boycott wrote in his column in Telegraph.

“In India final winter, ego and hubris received the higher of a few of our gamers. They got here out with feedback about being entertainers and the way it was necessary to attain shortly and thrill the crowds. All that’s laudable however they need to by no means lose sight that there’s a winner and a loser and dropping is not a lot enjoyable.

“Take a look at match cricket is just not an exhibition. If our gamers begin to assume that outcomes do not matter then they may as properly be part of a circus or go all over the world just like the Harlem Globetrotters basketball staff doing methods, laughing and joking and never bothering who wins as long as everybody has a enjoyable time.

The England cricket staff made a return to the longest format of the game with the primary Take a look at towards West Indies being performed at Lord’s. The match kicked off on Wednesday additionally occurs to be the final worldwide look for England nice James Anderson.