Sarfraz Ahmed: “We will try our best to put up a good target on the scoreboard”
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Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed has vowed that the batsmen will do their very best to help post large team scores during the World Cup.
“We’ve spoken about this (attacking cricket) over the last 12 months and it is good to see we are finally going out and doing it”
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England opener Alex Hales has revealed that he is excited by the more aggressive and attacking brand of ODI cricket the national team are starting to play.
“A hundred in a Boxing Day Test, as it was last year, would be as good as it gets”
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Australia opener Chris Rogers has revealed that scoring a century during the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne is on his Christmas wishlist.
“He’s been a good utility cricketer but it’s probably showing England’s hand in that they probably need to play four frontline seamers and a spinner”
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Former England coach Ashley Giles has revealed that he was hugely surprised by the national selectors’ decision to exclude all-rounder Ravi Bopara from the ODI squad for the upcoming five-match series against India.
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“Generally in one-day cricket we try to favour the batting team and we look for totals between 230 and 260”
International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richarson has defended the new ODI rules, stating that they have made “the game more attacking and more exciting”.
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“India have to win two to clinch the series, we have to win one to win the series”
Australia opening batsman Aaron Finch has announced that “it’s definitely positive being 2-1 up” against India as it means that the men in blue will have to win the two remaining ODIs, while the baggy greens just have to win one more to clinch the series.
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“Hopefully, we can find overdrive in Australia and create another piece of history”
England off-spinner Graeme Swann has announced that his side “thoroughly deserved to beat Australia 3-0 this summer” since they were playing at their very best.
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“Sometimes in England 240-250 can be a good score with the overhead conditions, but the majority of the time in Australia 400 is the bare minimum”
With England just having landed in the Land Down Under, captain Alastair Cook has already sent a strong message to the top-order batsmen, stating that they will have to step up and set the foundation for the rest of the team.
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“Bowlers need to be offered a crumb in the shorter forms of the game otherwise they’ll revolt, as they have done in the past, using extreme methods like Bodyline and chucking”
Following the first three ODIs between India and Australia, former baggy greens captain Ian Chappell believes that “bowlers will become an endangered species” in the shorter formats of the game if batsmen continue giving themselves an advantage by using heavier bats.