How England can live the dream of becoming the number 1 team in test-cricket?
After their humiliating departure from ICC World Cup 2011, English players have been bragging a lot about their ambition to become the number one team in test rankings. But in order to be the number one team in business one must have to compete against the
likes of best teams.
And only competing against them will not help in achieving the milestone, to be the best they have to beat the best. Recently http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013’s bowling arsenal expressed his desire of beating the cricketing giants of Sub-continent
India and Sri-Lanka.
They are currently amongst the best in the world, with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup 2011 and Sri-Lanka ending their campaign as the first runners-up. There are different grey areas in English side that are needed to be catered effectively in
order to attain the top spot.
First of all English side have to approach each and every game with a positive and aggressive frame of mind. Cricket critics all over the world have unanimously recognized England’s ability to emerge as one of the one of the strongest sides of the game,
but they have also identified their flaw of being “ poor finishers”
Currently England is eyeing upon thetest-series against Sri-Lanka and their hopes are high regarding the outcome of this series.
England needs to work a lot on their consistency, it is sad but true that England have always failed to maintain their consistency as a team in all forms of the game and especially in test-cricket. What differentiates Australia, Sri-Lanka and South-Africa
from rest of the cricketing nations is their habit of consistently maintaining their form in all formats of the game.
Analysis of England’s tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/PD-Collingwood-c2173, enjoying and crafting the major share of runs.
But now scenario isn’t the same any more, after Collingwood’s retirement from Test-cricket it is still un-decided that who is going to fit in the boots of Mr. Dependable. For this Job http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KP-Pietersen-c1806 seems to be an appropriate option.
Pietersen has appeared in 71 test-encounters for England with 17 centuries and 21 half-centuries adding to his impressive credentials at an average of 48.42. Pietersen is half-way to achieving his milestone of 10,000 runs in test-cricket, for the team management
it’s the right time to realize the significance of 30-year old and they should use him effectively as a useful asset for team-England.
Strauss recently revealed in his book after Ashes that Kevin is a kind of person, who needs respect and love buthe still has some old grievances with the English Cricket board and team-management, which are needed to be addressed in order to enhance his
performance.
England has one of the strongest domestic structures in the World of cricket that regularly produces talent for the national side. Selection committee of ECB should greatly emphasize upon providing the opportunity to young and fresh blood, this will help
in efficient succession planning of the team.
Their newly introduced trend of recruiting three different skippers for three different formats seems to be a questionable one and is expected to create discrepancies among the members of selection committee. In order to become the number one team in test-cricket
England has to improve their performance on the turfs of sub-continent and they have to win defeat India and Sri-Lanka who enjoy a splendid record at their home-soil.
By addressing these issues English side can live their dream of becoming the top seed in test-cricket.
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