Tired players, faded adventures: Scheduling hurts Test cricket

Delhi: Till a few years ago, ‘First Half’ and ‘Second Half’ were mentioned in the matter of playing Test in the English cricket season. If the Oval Test lasts for the fifth day in the current series, then not only this Test series, the season of Test match in England will end on August 4. Out of its last two series in England, India played the Oval Test in 2018 from September 7 and the Oval Test in 2021 from September 2. This time the Test series also ended as soon as the month of August started. In such a hurry and one Test playing program after another, players do not get time to work on fitness and farm. As a result, three such players, who come to see the test to see the play, are not playing in this test. Here Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Jaspreet are talking about Bumrah.

Changed cricket calendar responsible for haste

The changing cricket calendar is responsible for this. The Test series has been abolished in a hurry as the days have to be taken out for The Hundred. They also forgot how the players are affecting it? There is no time for recovery in this program. Many new faces played in these 5 Tests, but mostly to replace some ‘unfit’ because they did not have any chance that they would make a place in the team with their form. Now let’s watch the series from the day, not with its thrill. One test is over and preparations for the next Test started.

Fast bowlers are having trouble

Stokes is not playing in the oval test due to stretch in his right shoulder muscle. During his last spell in Old Trafford, he was repeatedly holding his shoulder between balls. Archer is more in the injury list anyway. Bumrah had to play 3 Tests and nothing happened that he would change his decision. Drawing the series 2-2 could not bring him to the ground. Asar is on the popularity of the series. Team India players came here playing IPL and after the English player the series, they will play instantly in the Hundred.

Stokes feared that if he played for 5 days in the Oval, he would be out of the Ashes, there are two big examples of impact on the players of this haste. Stokes had tiredness behind the hurry of ‘hand shake’ in Old Trafford and they too have now agreed that they did wrong. On the first day of the Oval Test, ‘Brainfed’ was probably tired of taking the run of Shubman Gill. This is the condition of opener Yashasvi Jaiswal. They are also looking tired. After two scores 101 and 87 in their first 3 innings of the series, out at 0 at 0 in the last 4 innings and once at 2.

Only Chris Woakes and Mohammad Siraj are the only two bowlers who remained in the 5 Test team and the Vox was also out of the Test on the very first day of the Oval Test. In the first 4 Tests, Mohammad Siraj threw 139 overs and Volks 167 overs.

Scheducting increased difficulties

If India has made only one score of less than 200 in the 8 innings in the series, then bowling is also responsible for this. Schedulling is directly impacting the game. India made four changes in the Oval Test team and England made three more compulsion.

By the way, now is blaming The Hundred for haste, but in the last few years, such haste has become a part of cricket. Earlier, the Ashes series used to run more than four months. In the 1993 Ashes, Australia’s team came to England in April and returned in August and was the lowest among Test matches. Now the cricket calendar will not let this happen. Even then how to say only three days of rest between Old Trafford and Oval Test? Old -fashioned bowlers used to play more first class cricket, but rarely someone has played the next Test after a Test, after such a short break. By the end of the Old Trafford Test, exhaustion had become so dominant that the last 5 overs from the 414 overs became one of the most popular stories of cricket.

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