England batter Ollie Pope believes that his teammate Joe Root will be focused on converting his unbeaten 99 into a "monster" score when play resumes at Lord's on Friday. Root was left one short of his 37th Test hundred at stumps on Day One of the ongoing Test match, after anchoring England's
Speaking ahead of the match, Stokes reflected, "This was always going to be a series (in) which moments ebb and flow, the results were going to ebb and flow because there are two very good teams going at each other," as quoted from Sky Sports.
With series 1-1, each following a historic win at Edgbaston, Team India's morale will be really high heading into a venue where they have won the last two of their three Tests. Stokes has had a moderate series so far, with just 86 runs in four innings, with the best score of 33. He has also
India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja opened up about the heated exchange of words he had with England captain Ben Stokes on Day 2 of the second Test at Edgbaston.
Team India trails the series 0-1, having failed to defend the 371 runs set by them at Leeds despite scoring five centuries in the Test, including two by their swashbuckling wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant.
"The blueprint that we have received from our seniors in the past 5-10 years is that we can win anywhere," Gill stated during the pre-match press conference.
England's batting wizard Joe Root reminisced about his captaincy days and felt it was unfair on the group, a phase that eventually pulled the curtains down on his stint as the Three Lions skipper.
England's talismanic batter Joe Root declared that it is his time to pay back Test skipper Ben Stokes, who did so much for him while serving as his deputy during his captaincy tenure that lasted from 2017 to 2022.
Jadeja and Stokes, when they take to the field on June 20 at Leeds, will be their team's most experienced players. Both players have a long history of playing against each other at home and away both and some more chapters could get added to it during the series, marking the starting point o