“Proud of their efforts”: Ben Stokes praises England spinners after Ranchi Test defeat cricket news

England captain Ben Stokes was proud of the way his spinners battled in the fourth Test, which the team lost, and admitted he “couldn’t have asked for anything more”. England’s young spinners Shoaib Bashir and Tom Hartley produced brilliant efforts and India had to fight hard for a run each as they chased down the modest target and won by five wickets. Bashir took two consecutive wickets to reduce the hosts’ score to 120/5 and brought England back into the game.

“I think it was a great Test match. If you look at the scoreboard, it will say India won by 5 wickets, but the way things unfolded, the ups and downs every day, don’t give it credit for that I can do that. I’m just proud of our team, we have some inexperienced spinners (Bashir and Hartley) but I’m proud of their efforts, they came here without a lot of experience and the way they bowled. I can’t ask for that. Anything else,” Stokes said after the game.

“Part of my captaincy is to give the youngsters the freedom to enjoy and play in some difficult and scary conditions in India. I’m a big fan of Test cricket, the amount of youngsters coming into both teams sets up good conditions for the future ” Of test cricket. Bashir, what a story, what a journey, taking eight wickets including a 5-fer against India after playing very little cricket is fantastic. You want to win series, you want to play and win cricket matches, Stokes further said.

England’s collapse in the Test came on the third day, when Ravichandran Ashwin completely took England out of the game and restricted them to a score of 145.

Stokes talked about that period and admitted that it was difficult to deal with the quality of India’s three star spinners.

“If you look at yesterday, anything was possible, it was incredibly difficult to bat against the spinners (Ashwin, Jadeja and Kuldeep), it became difficult to score runs and therefore difficult to rotate the strike. We knew that. The pitch will not be better than this, as we saw today. I don’t think the criticism of Joe Root has been fair, the amount of cricket he has played, the 12,000 Test runs he has scored. He is unbelievable. I have been here for a few years (as captain) ) and my message is simple. The only thing I can say is that we left nothing on the field, we fought hard and I am happy with that,” Stokes said.

On the fourth day, Dhruv Jurel and Shubman Gill made a 72-run partnership to get the hosts out of a difficult situation and lead India to victory. India has won the series and now one more Test is left to be played between the two teams and is leading 3-1.

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