‘Don’t think Rohit is better as captain’: Graeme Swann’s emotional statement | Cricket News

Former England spinner Graeme Swann doesn’t think Rohit Sharma is a better captain than Ben Stokes in the five-match Test series. Instead, it was a lethal set of bowlers who “succeeded” for the Indian captain. While Stokes’ leadership style grabbed all the attention before and during the series, Rohit’s side ended up winning 4-1. “I don’t think he has done well as a captain because his bowlers have done that for him. I think he has more weapons in his armoury,” Swann said after India batted an innings and finished with 64 told PTI Video in an exclusive chat. defeated England in the fifth and final Test here on Saturday.

“He performed well, don’t get me wrong, Rohit Sharma, but, I don’t think if you separate that and say Stokes’ captaincy performance was poor, I think you are looking for fault. object.

“Rohit Sharma’s bowlers have really come to town for him and come to the party for him and in the last four Tests they haven’t been there in the first game but in the last four They did,” Swann noted.

Don’t blame Buzz Ball

Rather than blaming “Bazball” for England’s defeat, Swann said Stokes and his side were not actually playing the brand of cricket that has brought them success in recent times.

Swann’s observation contrasts with the views expressed by a handful of other former players, who blamed the defeat on the visiting team’s obsession with Buzz Ball.

“I don’t think we’ve seen bazball on this tour, we saw it in one innings of this Test series when Ollie Pope got 190 and that’s the definition of bazball,” he said.

“I don’t think England have performed well in this series, they haven’t been brave enough. I don’t think they’ve played what you media would call bats.

“I think if they had done that, I think the series would have been a lot closer, to be honest.” Bazball was derived from the nickname Baz for England Test coach Brendon McCullum, who, in the fifth Test, A mediocre performance from the side helped India register a 17th consecutive Test series victory on home soil as the tourists surrendered within three days.

Speaking about the match ending in less than three days, Swann said: “I would say it’s a really good advert for Test cricket because it’s an exciting game.

“India were too good for England in this game. If a team has won, it’s always at the end of the series that you worry that will happen, that the resistance will be completely blown away, and this It was in this Test match.

“So England have to go home and get away from thinking where they went so badly wrong. India are world-class, especially their bowling attack, and that was shown again in this Test match.” As a former Spinner, Swann praised Ravichandran Ashwin for his outstanding performance in 100 Test matches.

“You know, how nice it was to get a high-five on his 100th Test match. I haven’t actually met him yet and I would have liked to go and congratulate him in person but I had to do it later in the hotel.

“It’s fantastic to bowl so well and make early progress, probably one of the best batsmen in his 100 Test games, so you have to take your hat off to Ashwin,” he commented .

On James Anderson becoming the first fast bowler to reach 700 wickets, Swann said: “He is a joke and Jimmy is an absolute joke, how he managed to hold on for so long.

“When I say it’s a joke, I mean it in a good way, he’s been incredible and to get 700 wickets, you know it’s almost a ridiculous achievement and I love him so much .

“I was kind of hoping it would be a dream for Jimmy when he almost ejected Kuldeep and almost hit his gloves and was dangling in the air because he hasn’t bowled a decent bouncer in 10 years, but He’s done it now.”

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