Kevin Pietersen slammed English Check skipper Ben Stokes for his “reckless batting” towards India on the third day of the continuing rescheduled fifth Check at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Stokes tried to bat vigorously after coming in to bat at 83/5 because the workforce was struggling put up a batting collapse. Even after getting a few further lives on the sector, Stokes was dismissed by Shardul Thakur.
When Stokes tried to raise the ball, Thakur dropped a straightforward catch and gave him an additional life. Two overs later, Bumrah dropped a sitter at mid-off, off Thakur’s supply, and granted the English skipper one more survival. Bumrah caught him in the identical space on the very subsequent supply by Thakur as Stokes walked off scoring a 36-ball 25.
Pietersen, who was commentating on Sky Sports activities on the time, was upset by his departure when the hosts have been right down to 149-6 after India scored 416 of their opening innings.
“I used to be simply watching Ben Stokes there for 10 minutes, and that little passage of play the place he ran down the wicket and slogged one straight up within the air. He ran down the wicket once more and he slogged it straight to mid-off, dropped catch. That is reckless batting. This isn’t defending your wicket. This isn’t defending what we name the worth of your wicket as a batter, as a result of Check match a whole lot are helpful commodities. And if you get a Check match hundred it means a hell of rather a lot, due to the stress and the stress and the endurance and the self-discipline that goes into it,” Pietersen was quoted by Wisden.
Ben Stokes is attempting to command some kind of authority by working at bowlers: Pietersen
In the meantime, the sequence had began in 2021, when Root and Virat Kohli have been the captains and the latter had taken India to a 2-1 lead, earlier than the fifth Check bought postponed. Stokes was named the skipper of the aspect after Joe Root stepped down from the position. In his very first task as full-time captain, he bagged a 3-0 victory towards New Zealand at house to mark his arrival.
“I’d inform Ben Stokes that he doesn’t have to try to show some extent by being ultra-aggressive. Ben Stokes has an aura that when he walks out to the wicket, the bowler is aware of he must be bowling his greatest deliveries as a way to get him out, and typically their greatest deliveries, they know are going to get hit for 4, and typically get hit for six. What I see for the time being with Ben Stokes is any person who’s the captain, the chief, and he’s attempting to command some kind of authority by working at bowlers,” he additional said.
