IND vs ENG: Anderson, Broad make unwanted 'wicketless' record during Ahmedabad pink-ball Test
Cricket | February 26, 2021 10:33 ISTJames Anderson and Stuart Broad went wicketless during the pink-ball Test in Ahmedabad against India.
James Anderson and Stuart Broad went wicketless during the pink-ball Test in Ahmedabad against India.
Broad bowled just 20 overs in two innings with no wickets to his name in the second Test.
Joe Root also confirmed that Foakes will keep wickets even after Jonny Bairstow returns to the squad after the second Test.
Hussain also backed Root's decision to not enforce the follow-on despite securing a 241-run first-innings lead.
Root, on the second day, became the first cricketer to score a double century in his 100th Test.
Depleted by injuries and without their star players, India under Ajinkya Rahane, had registered a 2-1 win in the four-Test Border-Gavaskar Series.
England defeated Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the first of the two Tests.
Jonny Bairstow and Mark Wood lost their Test contracts with England last week as the country's players from all formats prepared for pay cuts over the next year.
On this day Yuvraj Singh sent the cricket world into frenzy as he slammed six sixes in an over off Stuart Broad in the inaugural edition of WT20.
On Sunday, Buttler played an unbeaten knock of 77 runs as England comprehensively defeated Australia by 6 wickets.
Panesar said that since England prefer to play an all-rounder in those conditions and with Chris Woakes in the kind of form that he is in right now, it will be difficult to drop him for Ben Stokes whenever the England vice-captain returns.
On day five of the third Test against West Indies at the Old Trafford, Broad made history when he dismissed Kraigg Brathwaite
Broad has moved up one slot to the second position in the bowlers' list after a haul of 4/56 while Anderson has moved up two slots to 14th with figures of 3/60, as the pair helped dismiss Pakistan for 236 in their only innings of the match.
But after toiling long and hard, Broad finally managed to draw that softest of nick off Babar's outside edge with the delivery on the fourth stump which was comfortably taken by Jos Buttler.
Day 2 of the ongoing second Test between England and Pakistan was called off due to bad light, inciting opinions on the bad light rules and solutions to the issue.
Stuart Broad had long kept it a secret but revealed it to his teammates only during a pre-camp training for Ashes 2015.
Abid Ali struck 60 — after being dropped twice early in his 111-ball innings — and was comfortably Pakistan’s top scorer on a tough day for the tourists in changing weather.
The incident happened during the 46th over of Pakistan's second innings when Broad threw down a few words at Yasir Shah after dismissing him.
While the Barmy Army took a hilarious dig this episode of a father imposing fine on son, Stuart saw the funny side to this.
England versus Pakistan Test series begins on August 5 at the Old Trafford Cricket ground in Manchester.
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