Former England captain Andrew Strauss is not at all happy with the kind of performances England team is putting in the 4-match Test series of the ongoing tour of India 2021. He believes that current England batsmen are just not good enough to play effectively on spin-friendly conditions.
Strauss made these comments after England failed to put up a show with the bat in the first innings of the fourth and final Test match of the series against India. Indian spinners Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin shared seven wickets between them as England are bowled out for 205, their only 200+ total in this series after their mammoth 550+ in the first innings of the first Test match.
“Let’s not hide away from the truth. England’s batting quite frankly is not good enough in these conditions. You can talk about the pitch and about the ball and about anything else, but you have to find a way to score first-innings runs and they have got very few to play with,” said Andrew Strauss.
“It is scarcely believable. England are making the same mistakes they have made throughout the whole series. The non-turning ball has left them nonplussed,” added Strauss.
Home team India are currently leading the 4-match Test series by a margin of 2-1. Courtesy of Joe Root’s big innings, England won the first Test match while India won the next two matches on turning tracks to take a lead of 2-1 in the 4-match series.
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