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Tomorrow test match,my favorite england team going to win :nj :win
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Sarkar said:
England win 5-0
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Haseeb Hameed to debut as opener in Rajkot
Alastair Cook confirmed that Haseeb Hameed, the nineteen-year old Lancashire batsman, will be his opening partner for the first Test against India at Rajkot starting Wednesday (November 9). Cook also revealed that Hameed's debut would mean Ben Duckett, who opened in the two Tests in Bangladesh, will now bat at No. 4.
Gary Ballance, who batted in the middle-order in Bangladesh, registered scores of 1,9,9 and 5 in the two Tests and has been dropped for the series opener in India. The poor showing has resulted in England shuffling their batting order quite a bit to accommodatea teenaged opener and shunting an opener who scored a fifty in his last innings from that position.
"It's not ideal to give a guy two games at the top and then changing him but you know he's a pretty unflappable character. He had three tough innings and then played a really good innings at the top of the order. But I suppose historically he's played all his cricket in the middle order except the last year or so. So he's comfortable batting anywhere. It's never ideal if you chop and change but he's a fine cricketer," Cook said about Duckett on the eve of the series start.
Cook was also full of praise for the young Hameed's composure and cited that as a reason to push him ahead of the others in the reckoning. "You often wonder a nineteen year-old coming on tour, if they'll be overawed and he hasn't been at all. He's looked really good at the nets, the way he has trained, gone about his business," said Cook.
"He is incredibly unflappable. He is a very good player of spin. Looks like he picks length very well, uses the crease well forward and back. Stuart Broad bowled at him last summer and was almost straight on the phone to me saying how impressed he was with this guy," said Cook as he went on to shed light on why he wasn't wary of throwing him into the deep end straightaway.
"You wonder how he'd cope with it but he's superb. You wouldn't know he's 19 and I expect that same approach in his batting as well. He has scored runs at every single level he has played at. I remember how hard it was in my second year. I was nowhere near the player he was. It's really exciting."
Hameed has played 20 First Class games so far, scoring 1455 runs at an average of 48.50 and has now been fast-tracked into the team also because of the loss of form of Ballance. "Unfortunate decision on Gary. Unfortunately it is now six Test matches back where he hasn't quite scored the runs which he would have liked to done. So its giving someone else an opportunity and it's a very exciting day for a young guy who has impressed everyone so far on this trip," Cook said.
England are yet to finalise on their eleven for the game said Cook but the batting order looks very similar to the one that played in Bangladesh with Hameed for Ballance being the only change. Cook reckoned that the pitch could change character over 36 hours and decided to wait on making a decision about the bowling line-up.
http://m.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/83857/haseeb-hameed-to-debut-as-opener-in-rajkot
Alastair Cook confirmed that Haseeb Hameed, the nineteen-year old Lancashire batsman, will be his opening partner for the first Test against India at Rajkot starting Wednesday (November 9). Cook also revealed that Hameed's debut would mean Ben Duckett, who opened in the two Tests in Bangladesh, will now bat at No. 4.
Gary Ballance, who batted in the middle-order in Bangladesh, registered scores of 1,9,9 and 5 in the two Tests and has been dropped for the series opener in India. The poor showing has resulted in England shuffling their batting order quite a bit to accommodatea teenaged opener and shunting an opener who scored a fifty in his last innings from that position.
"It's not ideal to give a guy two games at the top and then changing him but you know he's a pretty unflappable character. He had three tough innings and then played a really good innings at the top of the order. But I suppose historically he's played all his cricket in the middle order except the last year or so. So he's comfortable batting anywhere. It's never ideal if you chop and change but he's a fine cricketer," Cook said about Duckett on the eve of the series start.
Cook was also full of praise for the young Hameed's composure and cited that as a reason to push him ahead of the others in the reckoning. "You often wonder a nineteen year-old coming on tour, if they'll be overawed and he hasn't been at all. He's looked really good at the nets, the way he has trained, gone about his business," said Cook.
"He is incredibly unflappable. He is a very good player of spin. Looks like he picks length very well, uses the crease well forward and back. Stuart Broad bowled at him last summer and was almost straight on the phone to me saying how impressed he was with this guy," said Cook as he went on to shed light on why he wasn't wary of throwing him into the deep end straightaway.
"You wonder how he'd cope with it but he's superb. You wouldn't know he's 19 and I expect that same approach in his batting as well. He has scored runs at every single level he has played at. I remember how hard it was in my second year. I was nowhere near the player he was. It's really exciting."
Hameed has played 20 First Class games so far, scoring 1455 runs at an average of 48.50 and has now been fast-tracked into the team also because of the loss of form of Ballance. "Unfortunate decision on Gary. Unfortunately it is now six Test matches back where he hasn't quite scored the runs which he would have liked to done. So its giving someone else an opportunity and it's a very exciting day for a young guy who has impressed everyone so far on this trip," Cook said.
England are yet to finalise on their eleven for the game said Cook but the batting order looks very similar to the one that played in Bangladesh with Hameed for Ballance being the only change. Cook reckoned that the pitch could change character over 36 hours and decided to wait on making a decision about the bowling line-up.
http://m.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/83857/haseeb-hameed-to-debut-as-opener-in-rajkot
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