Bob Wills terms top-order as England’s key to success against India – Cricket News Update
Former England pacer, Bob Wills, has said that England’s historic success against India came as a result of an outstanding run by the English top-order batsmen.
The Englishmen clinched the No. 1 position in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Test standings with a 4-0 whitewash against the Men in Blue, courtesy to their brilliant show in every department of the game.
Yet, Wills acknowledged excellent display of skills by the top-order batsmen as the decisive factor in England’s terrific triumph in the traditional 5-day game.
“There is a lot of strength in every department but I think those three at the top of the order, Strauss, Cook and Trott, are really, really solid,” said Wills.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IJL-Trott-c1576 remained phenomenal during the last couple of years, scoring massive amount of runs in critical clashes.
The best part of England’s side has been that whenever the openers failed to do well, the succeeding batsmen such as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 did the trick for the side.
So far in 2011, Cook has amassed 927 runs in just eight matches while Bell and Pietersen has collected runs at averages of 118.75 and 73.10 respectively.
Talking about England’s tactic to gather runs at a very good strike rate in the five-day cricket, the former seamer shared, “It's the perfect formula for the long form of the game. England have now won five of
their last 10 Test matches by an innings, three of those against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.”
While admiring Cook, Strauss and Trott, Wills did not forget to give full credit to Ian Bell who is England’s highest run-getter so far in the ongoing calendar year – 950 runs in just 11 innings.
Heaping special praise on the classy right-handed batsman, Wills described that Bell has improved his game a lot during the previous two years, regarding him as the backbone of English batting line-up.
“He's been a completely different character, far more mature and he looks England's most gifted and mature batsmen,” uttered the former fast bowler who has in played in 90 Tests for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013.
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