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Dom Sibley included in Lions squad for Australia tour

Dom Sibley, Matt Parkinson and Saqib Mahmood have been named in the 14-man England Lions squad that will travel to Australia next month. The Lions will provide the Joe Root-led side with opposition for the warm-up matches ahead of the first Ashes Test at Gabba and will also play a four-day tour match against Australia ‘A’. The Lions would be travelling overseas for the first time in almost two years as they last visited Australia back at the start of 2020. Sibley was dropped from the England squad after the second Test match against India at home and was replaced by Haseeb Hameed. There has been an uproar in the English media about the unconventional techniques of their batsmen, something that led to Sibely's departure from the India series. He was further dropped from the Ashes line-up as well. Parkinson and Mahmood on the other hand, have been picked after the two players were among wickets recently. Leg-spinner Parkinson picked up a total of 36 wickets in the Championship for Lancashire while Mahmood had impressed everyone during the ODI series against Pakistan and had also returned with 28 Championship scalps for Red Rose county in the eight matches that he featured in. The selectors didn’t include Liam Livingstone as he has had a hectic year and would want to spend some time at home. The squad will leave for Australia on November 4 along with the English team that will play the Ashes series. The Lion’s coaching staff and the captain are yet to be announced. Lions Squad: Tom Abell (Somerset), Josh Bohannon (Lancashire), James Bracey (Gloucestershire), Brydon Carse (Durham), Mason Crane (Hampshire), Matthew Fisher (Yorkshire), Ben Foakes (Surrey), Alex Lees (Durham), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Liam Norwell (Warwickshire), Matt Parkinson (Lancashire), Dom Sibley (Warwickshire), Jamie Smith (Surrey), Rob Yates (Warwickshire)

All-round Warwickshire trounce Somerset to win County Championship 2021-22

A collective effort from the bowlers led by Chris Woakes and Craig Miles has made Warwickshire the new champions of County Championship 2021-22. They topped Division one and thereby booked the bragging rights. Somerset required 273 runs on the final day of their last league game in Division 1, while Warwickshire needed all the 10 wickets to lift the championship title. In the end, it was the team from Birmingham who got the better of their opponent and won the game by 118 runs to lift the trophy for the first time since 2012. Woakes was the pick of the bowlers with six wickets across two innings of the game while it was Danny Briggs’ all-around performances in both innings that kept the Warcs in the game. To put them further in control, Tom Yate’s century in the second innings set the game up beautifully on the final day. Winning the toss and eclectic to bowl first, Somerset were thwarted by an impressive Warcs batting line-up with the likes of Dom Sibley, Will Rhodes and Saim scoring half-centuries. Warwickshire posted a decent first innings total of 367 runs but Somerset were not out of woods in the first innings itself as their batsmen led an impressive riposte and posted 389 runs on the board. Having conceded a lead of 22 runs, Warwickshire needed batsmen to put their hands up one more time and aggressive innings from Yates along with another set of fifties from Sibley and Rhodes provided Warcs with a perfect platform to press on for a win on the final day. On the final day, Somerset openers Ben Green and Tom Lammonboy tried their best to provide solidity to their batting effort but once Lammonboy was snaffled up by Briggs, the floodgates opened for Warcs and the men in marron slipped to 35/3 in no time from 31/0 with the loss of both the openers and Azhar Ali. The championship triumph marks a remarkable turnaround for Warwickshire who failed to win even a single game in the last season. They had finished seventh in the championship in the 2019 edition and their last triumph had come way back in 2012.

Desperate England not pushing for Ben Stokes return

England are desperate to turn things around in the ongoing Test series after falling behind on the back of a hurting loss at Lord’s on Monday. They have dropped Dom Sibley from the top order—their second top-order batsman in two matches of the series and replaced him with Dawid Malan, who is touted to be a batsman with strong character. England played with just four bowlers in the first Test of the series at Trent Bridge and the captain Joe Root clearly looked running out of options. To correct that and bring balance in the playing XI, they recalled Moeen Ali straight from The Hundred, where he was hitting boundaries for fun. Moeen brought the balance to the side, but Root certainly seems to be missing his maverick in Ben Stokes, who used to turn things around both with the bat and ball, at least in English conditions. The all-rounder had pulled out of the series to give himself some time off the game and also to rest his injured finger that gave him “ridiculous pain” while playing and leading England against Pakistan. The England team management however is not in any hurry to force the issue with Stokes in terms of the length of his sabbatical. Coach Chris Silverwood has refused to push him to return and said that England management does not have any timeframe in mind and instead will wait for him to come and say when he is ready. Silverwood said that what is important for England is that Stokes and his family are “ok” so that whenever he returns to play for the side, he is mentally perfect to perform at his best. He said that England are all for supporting him in the time of need and will welcome his back with “open arms”. “No, there is no pushing from my point of view. I don’t think you can push with these issues. I will wait and there will be an element of waiting for him to come to me to let me know he is ready. There is no time limit on it,” Silverwood said. “I would stress again the important thing is Ben is okay, his family is okay and that he comes back strong and, when he re-enters the frame, he is ready in his mind to come back and perform for England like we know he can.” “I am certainly not pushing him for an answer and I don’t think that would be the right thing to do. There are people around him supporting him and, when he is ready to come back in, we will welcome him with open arms, but until then he will get all the support he needs.” England have suffered setbacks one after another as players of the highest order such as Stokes, Stuart Broad have been ruled out of the series. They are 0-1 down the five-match series and have some more injury concerns to deal with after Mark Wood hurt his shoulder on the fourth day and James Anderson barely managing to be fit for the Lord’s Test.

Dawid Malan gets Test recall, Dom Sibley snubbed for 3rd Test

Dawid Malan has been named in the England Test squad having played his last Test three years ago. England have dropped out of form opener Dominic Sibley who is struggling to score runs at the highest level. Malan’s inclusion will surely lent stability in the middle-order which has been blown away by the Indian bowling line-ups in both the Tests barring their skipper Joe Root. Sibley who has scored just a solitary fifty in his last 15 innings and average under 30 in his Test career needs to sort out his technical issues before harbouring hopes of makeing a return. He scored 11 and a duck during a morale-shattering defeat the Lords. Malan who is the No 1 T20I batsman last played for England in the longest format against India during their victory against India in Edgbaston back in 2018. Malan scored a sensational 199 in his only red ball appearence for his county this season. However his overall Test record is far from ideal, averaging just 27.84 from 15 outings. With Zak Crawley already being dropped for the 2nd Test, the inclusion of Malan effectively means that Hasseb Hameed who made his Test return in the Lords Test is expected to open the innings with Rory Burns. The left-hander who has a very unique technique for an opening batsman has been dismissed for five ducks in his last six Tests but has chipped in with useful contributions in the rest. However Burns’ career also happens to be on the threshold if he doesn’t start performing more consistently now.

Mayank Kumar ∙ 16 Aug 2021

ENG vs IND | 2nd Test: Spirited pacers script India's one for the ages victory at Lord's

There would not have been many who would have put their money on the line for an India win going into the final day of the Lord’s Test. This space had also argued that it was Rishabh Pant, who was standing in between the fates of both sides. But, team India had other ideas and as a champion side do, they found a way out of trouble after the early departure of Pant and asked England to show their mental strength in the final 60 overs of what had turned out to be a riveting contest. The day was bowlers written all over it as first the pair of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami scripted a fairy tale comeback for India, and then their pacers unleashed all their variety, passion and energy in 53 overs to hand England a harsh reality check. Root’s brain fade England did not help themselves with questionable tactics as they showed more concern over India’s surging lead than dismissing the final two wickets. They could do neither and by the time Root realised he was on a wrong path, it was too late for a course correction as Shami and Bumrah took India’s lead past the 200-run mark. Indian lower-order batsmen have not been at their worst as they have been known for in the last few years, but they were not technically superior to their top order batsmen as well. As soon as Bumrah joined Shami, there was an unprovoked defensive approach from Root. There could not be any plausible explanation for spreading the field against them when the ball was doing enough off the pitch. They have had the big wicket of Pant very early in the day and just needed to stick to the line and length approach which was working quite well for them. However, Root chose to see too far ahead and focussed on India’s lead and did not live in the present to marshall his troops to stick to their disciplines. He himself admitted that the onus was on him to own up the responsibility of messing up the tactics in the first session. Bumrah’s defence, Shami’s belligerent attitude Bumrah joined Shami after the fall of Ishant, who is known for his defence and not giving up attitude, both with the bat and the ball. The end was nigh for Indians and they could have flashed their hands at all deliveries to maximise their stay at the crease. Having worked hard on their batting to correct their shoddy record in the recent records, Bumrah and Shami settled down quite nicely to get behind the lien of the balls. England were not comfortable at seeing them batting with mind and started verbal tricks to unsettle Bumrah and the batsman did not hold back either, although he had a bat, not a ball in his hands. What threatened to be a short stay at the crease which could not have allowed India breathing space with the ball, the duo stitched a valiant unbeaten partnership of 89 runs filled with many crisp shots that would have made decorated Indian top and middle order proud. The game that had appeared firmly in England’s grapes was taken beyond their control in a matter of sessions and the downward curve was complete when Siraj castled Anderson to give India a 1-0 lead. England’s top order on a free fall England openers had the task of providing England with a solid start as they were asked to prove their technique and mindset in the last 60 overs of the day. However, their misery could not get any worse as Bumrah sent Rory Burns back on the third ball of the innings. Before Dom Sibley could understand the true nature of pitch after seeing his partner getting out to a notorious ball that jumped a bit awkwardly off the good length, Shami bowled a peach that left him from the line of his off stump. The openers were gone inside 12 balls and India smelled blood so early in their bowling and as soon as Root was snaffled by Kohli in the slips off Bumrah, the writing was on the wall for the feeble England batting order. Siraj matches Kohli’s passion Bumrah and Shami provided India with the perfect start but as the ball got older and they had to be replaced, England found some stability in Moeen Ali and Jos Buttler, who were attacked by Kohli with the sledge questioning their batting credentials in the longest format. Moeen was watchful and did not offer any opportunity to India except for Ravindra Jadeja’s delivery that turned out to be a no-ball. India were guilty of offering one chance each to both Buttler and Moeen and they could have lived to rue those missed opportunities. India needed their third and fourth pacer to stand up after the initial burst of Shami and Bumrah and Ishant heard the clarion call straightaway with the wickets of Haseeb Hameed and Jonny Bairstow. Siraj was yet to come to the party and he came superbly into it with back-to-back wickets of Moeen and Sam Curran, who has earned the unfortunate reckoning of becoming the only batsman to bag a king pair at Lord’s. He came back after Buttler and Robinson had reduced the remaining overs to less than 10 and India needed inspirational bowling. He was getting the ball shape in to the right-handers throughout the game and Buttler got so used to it. Then came the sucker delivery that went away from him and the wicketkeeper could not play the ball late and a delighted Pant pouched the ball safely in his glove to put England on the brink. There was tension between England’s number —Anderson and Bumrah after the Indian pacer had peppered him a barrage of short balls in the first innings. The tactics, from the outset, was similar as Siraj welcomed him with a bumper that could not rise to put him under a spot of bother. Siraj was smart and he changed the angle to show strong signs of incoming short deliveries. Anderson, as any batsman who would be expecting balls around his head, would be, was hanging on the backfoot and Siraj hit the perfect line and length to hit the top of off stump and send India and their fans into a frenzy. He picked up eight wickets across the two innings but what would have impressed Kohli the most was his attitude and willingness to keep running in irrespective of the help from the pitch and in the air. After threatening to win the first game of the series at Trent Bridge, India finally got a hard-earned win at Lord’s—their second in the last three games at the venue. The defeat has left England soul-searching after falling short of a spirited Indian pace attack.

2nd Test, Day 2: Root, Burns keep England in game after India squander hard-earned advantage

India were in such a good position at the end of the first day’s play that they needed to have a disastrous first session on the second day to given England a sizable opportunity. On cue, they were at it with wickets falling in heap in the first couple of overs of the day itself. The hosts, however, could stop the belligerence of Rishabh Pant and control of Ravindra Jadeja from taking India to an above-par score in the first innings. Later, England’s batsmen could manage to see off the new ball without suffering damage right at the start. However, their stay at the crease could not get very long as Mohammed Siraj produced two consecutive wicket-taking deliveries to bring India back in the game. Centurion of the last game, Joe Root steadied the ship along with Rory Burns, who looked assured around his off stump and batted fluently for is 49. England finished the day 118/3 with Root and Jonny Bairstow remaining unbeatne to keep the game in the balance. Rahane’s jitteriness, Jadeja’s patience After KL Rahul departed in the very first over of the day driving an Ollie Robinson’s half volley straight to cover, there were three men to steer India towards a formidable total in the first innings. One of them and India’s vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane has been at his best in the last few Tests although he got a decent 49 in the World Test Championship final against New Zealand. On the last ball of the first day, he had attempted to drive full delivery from James Anderson in a move that establishes nothing his restlessness at the crease and eagerness to put bat to ball. He was lucky last evening but it cost him his wicket on the very first ball of Anderson on the second day and India had both their unbeaten batsmen back in the pavilion in space of the first seven balls of the day. India were thin in their batting after playing four quicks and it was now or never moment for Jadeja and Rishabh Pant if the side were to have a decent first innings total. Pant played in his usual belligerent style while Jadeja mimicked the control and preciseness of Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul from the first day. He knew that England needed to open one end up to get through to the tailenders and hence shut shop completely as Pant started dazzling England bowlers for runs. He never played a short in anger before taking India to a respectable total and was the last man to be dismissed in search of quick runs while batting with the last man. Siraj’s brilliant length, Kohli’s half-hearted review calls India did not ask Mohammed Siraj to bowl with the new ball as Ishant Sharma over him and Mohammed Shami. However, the England openers were watchful and did not offer their wickets. Kohli switched to Siraj only in the 13th over and he was at his best from the first over. The results came in the second over in the form of Dom Sibley, who has not been able to rectify his woefully messed technique at the crease and a returning Haseeb Hameed on consecutive deliveries. He was getting a nice shape into the right-handers and due to the slowness of the pitch that was not allowing the edges to carry to the slips, he attacked the stumps. He found Root twice in front of the stumps but umpire Michael Gough did not agree on either occasion. Siraj has shown the tendency of getting over-excited and getting emotional with the flow of the game and the trend continued on the second day as he compelled Kohli to waste not one but two reviews. The grumpiness on Kohli after losing the second review showed that he is getting affected by those terrible review calls that he himself is signalling for. Fluent Burns keep England in the game Rory Burns was England’s Man of the Series in the series against New Zealand that preceded the ongoing one against India. However, his inability to follow one good innings with another, and along with his partners’ struggle at the top has not made life easier for the left-hander. However, on the day things were at stake for England in pursuit of matching India’s 364, Burns was back to his watchful and fluent best. He has been blamed for his idiosyncrasies at the crease but once again showed that none of his movements that have been deemed excessive by critics limits his stroke play on the leg side and control outside the off stump. He fell on 49 while trying to nudge Shami off his legs but his calm and reassuring 49 would have helped in calming things down in the hosts’ dressing room after the initial fall of wickets. Looking forward to the third day The game hangs in balance but India have more advantages going into the third day as England batsmen except Root have not been at their best so far in the series. Bairstow looked good in the first Test but he is struggling to convert starts into big ones. Moeen Ali will be back to playing in England after a long gap while Buttler too has had nervous moments so far in the series. The first session on the second day offered most opportunities for the bowlers and India would be relying on their quartet of pacers to knock the hosts over quickly in the first innings. For England, the onus will once again be on Root’s shoulder if they have to stand any chance of coming on par with India’s first innings total. If he fails early, India would be in with a huge chance to gain a significantly superior position in the game.

Root surpasses Graham Gooch, stands behind only Cook on list of England's leading run-scorers

Joe Root has gone past former England captain Graham Gooch on the list of leading run-scorers for England in Test cricket. Gooch has 8,900 runs to his name while Root breached the mark with two boundaries off Ishant Sharma on the second day of the Lord’s Test against India. He needed 14 runs to surpass Gooch and he did that in 16 innings fewer than Gooch to reach the landmark. Gooch had taken 215 innings to amass 8,900 runs at an average of 42.58 with 20 centuries and 46 fifties. Root, on the other hand, has taken just 196 innings to go past his runs tally. Root now stand just after Sir Alastair Cook on the list of leading run-scorers.. Cook had taken 291 innings to pile on 12, 472 runs in the longest format at an average of 45.35 with 33 centuries and 57 half-centuries. Root has not had a great time in home Tests but came roaring back to form in the last Test against India at Trent Bridge. It was his efforts with the bat in the second innings that reduced England from a position of trailing by 95 runs. England are once again reliant on his bat in reply to India’s 364 in the first innings of the ongoing Lord’s Test.

Root regains 'belief' against 'very good' Indian attack, admits top order batting as concern

England were having 157 runs to defend on the final day of the Nottingham Test and skipper Joe Root sounded confident of his side’s chances, similar to his counterpart Virat Kohli’s bullishness about his team’s chances. They have taken away India’s leading run-scorer from the first innings in KL Rahul late on the fourth day, but India’s batting order accompanied by the quality of England place attack had set up for a cracking finish of the game. The weather god however had other ideas, and once again, like Kohli, Root rued a “robbed” opportunity for both sides of what could have been an “entertaining” final day. Root was asked by Michael Atherton with the reference of Kohli’s statement about his team’s chances of winning the game, and the Man of the Match Root said that England believed they could “nine opportunities” if weather permitted. It was a great Test match, the weather's robbed us of what would have been an entertaining final day. Even 40 overs could have given us something exciting. Hopefully, we can take some of the good stuff we've done this week into the rest of the series,” Root said in the post-match presentation ceremony. “Felt like there were going to be nine opportunities, it was just about making the game go long enough and make sure we had our catchers in. It's a shame the weather sort of won today.” However confident Root sounded after the game ended in a draw, he would be the first one to accept to himself that India had England under the pump and it took a masterful innings from him to put them in a position of strength on the fourth day. He has been shouldering the burden of his teammates’ failure and invariably England have struggled to put up string fight without his contribution in the recent past. England top order has become Achilles heel for them over the last few Test series and Root openly admitted the issues at the top of the order. However, he ruled out any fresh infusion to the side and lamented the scheduling issues due to Covid-19 behind the inability to bring more experienced players in the mix. He defended the young players for not being able to put up strong performance but asserted that his teammates have not been using lack of experience as any sort of “excuse.” “There's certain areas we want to keep working on, we obviously want to score more runs at the top of the order, and taking the chances we create, but Test cricket is challenging. We need to keep working on our game, and also keep the fun element in there,” he added. “We're going to have to deal with as long as we have this schedule. It helps to have experience. It's a little harder for the younger guys, but none of us in the dressing room are using it as an excuse.” It was Joe Root who brought England back in the game after they had conceded a lead of 95 runs in the first innings which could well have been a match-deciding one. He batted with superb fluency and played shots with great flair and freedom to put India on the backfoot in the afternoon session on a penultimate day. Looking back to the century, he outlined the “enjoyment” and “belief” he gathered after combatting a “very good” Indian seam attack that kept on asking questions of him and his teammates. He said that the aggressive approach he had adopted against the pacers was a thoughtful plan to shift the pressure back on the tourists. “There was a lot of enjoyment in how I batted, and a little bit of belief there too. India have a very good seam attack, and they tested our defences for long periods of time, and from my point of view it was about putting the pressure back on them,” Root signed off. The hosts have some decisions to take regarding their brittle top order come the second Test match at Lord’s starting on August 12, and all the top three batsmen such as Rory Burns, Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley will be walking on thin ice if they survive to bat the Home of Cricket.

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