IND vs ENG: India Series Defeat Would Not Change England Said Ben Stokes

England won’t change their aggressive type of play even when they lose the sooner or later sequence towards India, after their defeats within the Take a look at and Twenty20 video games, Ben Stokes insisted Thursday.

England should beat India in Pune on Friday to maintain alive their hopes of profitable the sequence. Defeat might see them lose their primary world ODI rating to India.

“We might be bitterly dissatisfied to lose a sequence as we might with every other one,” stated Stokes, who was the hero of England’s World Cup triumph in 2019.

“We should be primarily due to our outcomes and the way in which we play our cricket and we cannot go away from that.” Now not being primary wouldn’t be the top of the world, the star all-rounder stated.

Our driving power is the way in which we go about it and our angle in the direction of taking part in the sport. That’s what has made us achieve success and the extra profitable we’re then the extra alternatives we’ve got obtained to be at primary.

“So our driving power is ensuring we keep true to ourselves and our perception in how we play the sport — and that’s one thing we won’t change.”

England has been thrashed by 66 runs within the first sport, including to alarm bells after their 3-2 defeat within the T20s and 3-1 loss within the Checks.

“We all know we’re a lot better workforce than that,” stated Stokes. “We’re bitterly dissatisfied however what we’ve got been superb at is placing earlier video games to mattress shortly whether or not we’ve got had a profitable sport or a poor sport, and all our focus can be on tomorrow.”

Stokes additionally stated England wouldn’t be panicked into altering their batting lineup. He has performed at quantity three for the sooner or later video games due to the absence of Joe Root. Simply because we misplaced the T20 sequence does not imply we have to begin altering issues round.

“Once we win no person says an excessive amount of however after we lose everybody begins to pipe up once more. I’m pleased the place all the pieces is in our white-ball workforce as a result of that’s our greatest method to win.”

England may very well be pressured into modifications on Friday due to accidents to Sam Billings and captain Eoin Morgan within the first sport.

Billings harm his shoulder in a heavy fall whereas fielding and Morgan wanted stitches to separate webbing between two fingers. “Sam is rather a lot higher than we initially thought,” stated Stokes, however the batsman was being “assessed”.