India vs England 3rd ODI Preview as England will look to play for pride while India will look to fine-tune their 11.
India vs England 3rd ODI Preview as Ahmedabad will see India aim to secure a clean sweep.
Throughout this ODI series, Jos Buttler has been mindful of playing watchable cricket in addition to performing well for longer. He cited Rohit Sharma’s 72-ball century as evidence that being “dynamic” and “aggressive” is the way to play the game in the present era and that it is a virtue worth pursuing.
After months of suffering—perhaps a ball rolling off his forward defensive and onto his stumps at the beginning of the season might have served as a warning—Rohit glanced up to see four fast bowlers approaching him on a sluggish, low pitch. They were all essentially the same.
In contrast, England had to score runs against an unidentified spinner who had already outscored them during the tour’s T20I leg. In his first over as an ODI player, Varun Chakravarthy took a wicket. Two quite different left-arm spinners were in their path.
Axar Patel is not dependent on turn. He bowled it after round-arming it in search of lbw. Ravindra Jadeja doesn’t make that distinction between the bat’s edges. He pursues them both. In ODI cricket, variety like that is important. Insofar as Rohit doesn’t see many issues with his team’s current situation, India has it.
Not only now, but everyone feels the desire to play attacking cricket. The world had only begun to comprehend that T20 existed when one of the greatest ODIs ever played, the 438 game, took place, reinforcing the undeniable excitement of scoring runs. Four hundred playing four hundred is thrilling, but three hundred playing three hundred is dull. They are still pursuing the fantasy that England made the 500 appear achievable twice. Perhaps they should focus equally on identifying a bowling attack that isn’t so samey.
Harshit Rana resented not getting a cap for his country. When things continued to happen, he needed his coach and father to comfort him. However, he is now an all-format player, making debuts in Test, ODI, and T20I in four months, and his popularity may continue to rise as the Champions Trophy approaches. India values his ability to take wickets more than his propensity to give up runs, so it makes sense to pursue that trade-off, particularly if it offers them an advantage in the middle overs.
In fact, England was performing well at 219 for 3 in the 39th over at Cuttack when their captain failed to clear mid-off. It’s possible that Buttler was mentally reenacting that incident when he stated, “We are making steps again in the right direction but not the perfect, complete performance with the bat.”
Things may have turned out differently if that shot had gone for four, as it has hundreds of times before. Buttler requires them to be unique. He and England didn’t have a great showing at the most recent 50-over ICC championship held on the subcontinent.