MULTAN, Pakistan, October 13: Former England pace legend and current bowling coach James Anderson provides an update on the fitness status of Test captain Ben Stokes and looks forward to his return to action after the match. As preparations are underway, he said the star players are looking great as they bowl in the nets. He injured his hamstring in August.
Stokes was ruled out of Monday’s Multan Test after failing to recover from a hamstring injury. In early August, Stokes suffered a hamstring injury during The Hundred. This left him out of England’s 2-1 win over Sri Lanka, with Ollie Pope leading the team in the veteran’s absence.
Anderson, who told the BBC, as quoted by Wisden, said: “He looks great. He’s been working hard on his fitness and looks the strongest I’ve ever seen…Knowing Ben… “So once he gets into the game, he’s great.” You can’t stop him, he’s just that kind of player. We have to wait and see what he can do in the game. ”
Pakistan will use the same pitch they used in the first Test in the second match, so Anderson hopes Stokes will be able to return for this match and the team will be less reliant on their third seamer. The track is expected to have a lot of cracks and is therefore expected to be more useful for spinners Jack Leach and Shoaib Bashir, as well as the deft Joe Root.
Anderson also felt that using the older surface could be helpful for the visitors, saying, “When you’re talking about Ben’s workload and his bowling, the spinners could potentially play a bigger role.” There are sexualities and that can affect our hands…” You never know what you’re going to get. ”
In the first Test, England became the first team to take a lead of over 200 runs in the first innings after conceding over 550 runs in the first innings. In contrast, Pakistan have scored over 500 in their first innings by an innings difference in a Test match, thanks to England’s 823/7, the fourth-highest Test innings total in history and the highest in the 21st century. They were the first team to lose. . Shaheen could only get one wicket while Naseem got two. We both ran a lot.
The result lifted England to fourth place in the World Test Championship standings and kept their hopes of making it to the finals alive, while Pakistan finished bottom with a goal average of just 16.67 per cent.
Following extensive consultations by a newly formed selection committee, some of Pakistan’s best-known players will sit out the second Test against England in Multan due to a number of changes. Babar Azam said of the many changes made by the newly formed selection committee in the aftermath of Pakistan’s disastrous defeat in the first Test on Friday despite scoring over 550 runs in the first innings. I took the lead. Pace bowling duo Naseem Shah and Shaheen Shah Afridi and keeper-batsman Sarfaraz Ahmed were also left out of the squad. The ICC said leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed, who was taken to hospital during the first Test after falling ill, will also be absent.
Pakistan squad for 2nd and 3rd Tests: Shan Masood (captain), Saud Shakir (vice-captain), Aamer Jamal, Abdullah Shafiq, Haseebullah (wicketkeeper), Kamran Ghulam, Mehran Mumtaz, Mir – Hamza, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Hurairah, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha, Zahid Mehmood.
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