England without Anderson for Leeds Test; Ex-captain says:

Delhi: The first match of the five matches of India and England is being played in Leeds. In such a situation, the first day of the series has passed, and it seems that the host team has started to miss veteran fast bowler James Anderson. This is the same series named Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy. After the first day, after the game, former England captain Nasir Hussain recalled the service given by Anderson to the team for years, as well as the diversity of them, which they used to confuse the batsmen.

Last year, Anderson was inspired to retire at the behest of Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes. On Friday, when Jofra Archer, Mark Wood and Gus Atkinson were out of the team due to injury, England’s fast bowling attack appeared weak under the leadership of Chris Woakes.

Stokes decided to bowl first on a flat pitch and took two wickets, while Bridan Cars got a success. India scored 359 runs for 3 wickets till the end of the day’s play with the brilliant century innings of Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal. English fast bowlers definitely got light swing in the beginning, but they could not take full advantage of it.

Nasir Hussain wrote in his column in the Daily Mail, “Your length as a bowler in the headingle should be absolutely accurate, and there are two reasons.

He further said, “The semen of England were either excessively or excessive short or excessive short balls, and the best batsmen like Yashswi Jaiswal, KL Rahul and Shubman Gill were seen taking full advantage of that mistake. The specialty of Jimmy Anderson was the same, whether it was in-swing, out-swing or wobble seam-he used to do all this very efficiently.”

Former captain Hussain hoped that England fast bowlers would bowl further with more discipline, even if they do not get wickets, they would support spinner Shoaib Bashir.

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