There are a couple of ways England could fit Rashid into their side; they could drop a pace bowler or back Rashid’s ability as an allrounder and leave either James Vince or Gary Ballance out of the middle order. At some stage he will get an opportunity. “But after lunch they got it reversing and we were not having any clue”.
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If Rashid does make the cut for the Oval Test, Bayliss & Co. will be forced to leave out a seamer from the eleven in the wake of Moeen Ali’s Man of the Match winning performance in the Edgbaston victory.
“If we do become number one after the Oval that is fantastic, but I wouldn’t say we’re anywhere near our potential”, Cook said after England’s 141-run win in Birmingham, according to The Independent.
England play seven Tests in the sub-continent prior to Christmas- two in Bangladesh, subject to security clearance, and five in India – but Rashid may yet come into the mix sooner should the Oval pitch prepared by Surrey’s head groundsman, Lee Fortis, be similar to the one for last year’s fifth Ashes Test when Australia picked up a consolation win and the off-spinner Nathan Lyon claimed four wickets in the match.
West Indies’ Roston Chase, who scored a match-saving 137 not out against India, has rocketed 72 places to share 65th with Alex Hales of England, while Pakistan opener Sami Aslam, who scored 82 and 70 at Edgbaston, has returned to the rankings in 67th spot.
“Ben Stokes is a big part of that”. If he’s in the team as one of four pace bowlers, we could have two spinners.
But it was the peak for that team, who lost the next series 3-0 in the United Arab Emirates against Pakistan, and were beaten by South Africa the following summer before descending into infighting over the Pietersen “textgate” affair.
“If it’s a pitch that has got green grass on it, I don’t think there’s any point playing him for the sake of playing him”.
“The spell just after lunch that Moeen and [Stuart] Broad put together in partnership was reassuring and quite simply the difference was his discipline of length”, said the coach.
Due to finger injury of James Vinci’s, has little bit anxious about him to play.
“We were never leading it but then, when we got our chance yesterday afternoon, Mo and “Bluey” [Jonny Bairstow] put the pressure on them”. Full credit to England for the way they fought back after we had a lead of more than 100.
“It s a bit harder (then) to run down the wicket and hit over the top and play reverse-sweeps and sweeps”.
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Speaking about the rankings, he said: “It does give the guys confidence that they can win games from a little bit behind, that anything’s possible”. ‘We seemed to be behind most of the game, just hanging on in there. “I thought there were signs in this game that some of the more inexperienced players were starting to show a little bit of maturity”.
