“Whining a bit”: England criticize Ben Stokes and Co for complaining about DRS cricket news

Former England cricket team captain Michael Vaughan believes that Ben Stokes and Co. have ‘whined too much’ about DRS decisions in the Ranchi Test series against India. Vaughan has been a vocal critic of the DRS call, but believes that is not the reason why England are currently trailing 1-2 in the five-match series, with the fourth Test heavily tilted towards the hosts. Is. in your column for WireVaughan wrote that England may have felt that big decisions had gone against them but they let the game slip away after solid starts in both Rajkot and Ranchi.

“I think England have moaned about it a bit too much in this series. Yes, there have been some strange-looking decisions. Ollie Pope has had a few LBWs in the first innings in the last two Tests. Jack Crawley, a few like that “Incidents have happened, in Vizag he was out LBW by Kuldeep Yadav and in Rajkot the match referee called Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum to tell them there was a slight mistake in the pictures on the screen,” Vaughan wrote.

I understand that in the high-pressure environment of a huge Test series it can feel like the world is against you, but that’s not why England find themselves in the position they do in this game or this series. . This is because, like Rajkot, they let the game slip away as the third day got underway. They need to think long and hard about why this is happening, and it’s not really because of DRS, even though Joe Root is a very important player and his decision today was very marginal,” he said. .

Dhruv Jurel’s defensive chef-d’oeuvre found a perfect match in fielder-man Ravichandran Ashwin and Kuldeep Yadav’s devastating symphony of spin as India took decisive control of the fourth Test.

Till stumps, India has scored 40 runs in the target of 192 runs without losing any wicket. Rohit Sharma (24 batting) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (16 batting) will be confident that the team will collect the remaining 152 runs without much drama.

However, it was Jurel who started India’s resistance movement by scoring an aggressive 90 runs in 149 balls and 211 minutes. With this, the host team reached 307 runs from 219 runs for seven wickets in their first innings.

In their second essay, England had no answers to the questions posed by Ashwin (5/51), taking his 35th five-wicket haul in Tests, and Kuldeep Yadav (4/22), who were out for just 145.

(With PTI inputs)