England skipper Jos Buttler backed his workforce’s aggressive method regardless of poor leads to India through the T20Is.
“We need to play in precisely the identical approach. We need to discover methods to place stress on the opposition with the bat,” stated Buttler. “We consider that’s one of the best ways for us to win video games in cricket and get the very best out of the gamers in our dressing room. We’ll double down on that,” he added.
“I feel we performed nicely in phases within the T20s, but it surely was by no means fairly lengthy sufficient to run with it and run away with video games. It’s actually necessary that we keep on monitor and keep on target with the best way we need to play and try to execute that to the very best of our skill in these video games.”
Whereas his facet has redefined how ODIs have been performed within the final decade, England didn’t defend its crown through the 2023 World Cup in India, profitable simply three of its 9 video games.
When requested in regards to the failure to duplicate the success on Indian pitches, the 34-year-old careworn the significance of execution and spoke about how Rohit Sharma has proven the best way for India to comply with the same method.
“Whether or not you need to be aggressive, you need to be conservative, you need to be measured, you’ve nonetheless acquired to go on the market and execute it and play it nicely. If I look again at that World Cup, the 2 groups within the ultimate have been taking part in a optimistic and aggressive model of cricket. Chances are you’ll consider how Travis Head took that ultimate with the bat. You see, it may be profitable.”
“I feel Rohit takes loads of credit score for a way he’s come out and performed himself as a captain and pushed India extra in the direction of that type of cricket. We need to be precisely the identical. We consider that’s the best way that may give us the very best likelihood of getting optimistic outcomes,” stated Buttler.
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