Quote from: Bitcoin Smith on February 22, 2024, 06:50:35 PM

Quote from: JSRAW on February 22, 2024, 11:26:55 AM

Ollie Robinson is replacing Mark Wood and Bashir comes in for Rehan. Redhead Johnny is in the playing XI.

Bairstow gave nightmares to Indian bowling unit in the past, it is the reason why England back him? He is not even showing any signs to read the ball even in flat tracks and going on back foot which put him in this situation.

Just now saw some stats of Ranchi venue intl stats, only two matches have been played there and avg scores of all the 4 innings are around 300 so it may not be a run feat like Rajkot but definitely not a rank turner. India will surely miss the Bumrah since 39% of wickets took by seamers and only 61% by spinners in the venue.

I am missing rank turner now.

No, not really. Bairstow performed exceptionally well under the new regime (Stokes +Baz) and he was instrumental in their success but he never had any sort of success in India and so far completely failed with the bat. In his last 11 tests in India, he has a mediocre average of 25-ish. They are still backing him tho.