Former England captains Geoffrey Boycott and Michael Vaughan have made a scathing assault on Zak Crawley and Chris Woakes after Ben Stokes and co. suffered a humiliating 337-run loss at Edgbaston within the second Check of the continued Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.Boycott mentioned opener Zak Crawley has not learnt a factor and has resorted to his previous unhealthy methods.
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“At Headingley, he performed straight with the total face of the bat, left broad balls, and let the ball come to him so he might preserve his bat near his pad,” Boycott wrote in his column for The Telegraph.
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“The 2 pictures he obtained out to at Edgbaston had been terrible. Within the first innings, his ft obtained caught in cement, neither ahead nor again, after which he wafted on the ball to be caught at slip.“Within the second innings, he batted on off stump and drove at a well-pitched-up ball two ft broad. He didn’t must play it. He was on nought, had been fielding for 5 periods, and his legs had been drained, so he ought to have been fascinated by surviving that night.“I don’t suppose he can change or get higher.”The 27-year-old opener has performed 56 Exams and nonetheless averages 31 in Check cricket, which Michael Vaughan mentioned is simply not ok.“There have been many gamers who’ve annoyed followers – together with me – through the years, however he’s proper up there as essentially the most irritating I can keep in mind. And in my time watching, enjoying for, and overlaying England, he’s the participant luckiest to have gained as many caps as he has,” Vaughan wrote in his column for The Telegraph.“He has to depend himself lucky to have performed 56 video games, whereas scoring simply 5 a whole bunch and averaging 31. Amongst all of the openers in historical past with greater than 2,500 runs, he has the bottom common: 30.3. He’s batted 102 occasions in Check cricket and been out in single digits 42 occasions.”Boycott used even sterner phrases for Chris Woakes, who he thinks is previous his sell-by date.“His tempo is dropping, as you’ll count on as a seamer will get older. He has by no means been a wicket-taker overseas, the place his file is poor. He’s good – or has been good – on English pitches, and his batting has been helpful at occasions as a security valve when others have failed. His job shouldn’t be to shore up unhealthy batting. Batsmen are there to attain runs, and bowlers must take wickets,” mentioned Boycott.“Woakes has been a great cricketer, however not a grasp craftsman like James Anderson, who took buckets filled with wickets house and away persistently.”
