The short-term England approach that Ben Stokes can lift over a large hurdle in Old Trafford

Ben Stokes had spent part of Monday in the middle in Old Trafford and studied the field. He had no option on Tuesday, the covers that protect it from the elements. The male weather made up its only draw as a test captain against Australia in 2023.

There can still be a risk of repetition, although the rain, although the sky is clarifying in the afternoon, is still run down. But Old Trafford Draws have a different reference: This week marked the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the ash in 2005. Australia kept nine gates in an exciting destination in Manchester, but England won the series 2-1.

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Twenty years later, which develops as another epic competition, England has a 2-1 lead off India in a series that made a turn with the sled of the Lord’s test. Rain may be undesirable, but it would hurt the tourists more. Stokes, whose side was accused of “against the Spirit of Cricket” after the delay tactics in the third test, is a man with a proven capacity to roll through the pain barrier and know something about suffering.

He went through 44 over to secure the 22-run victory at Lords, 24 of them in the last innings, was shown by nine and ten. “I don’t think enjoyment is the right word,” he considered. “I felt consistently threatening in these spells, so I went on.”

It was just as good that he had a few days off. “I felt like I was in a long -distance relationship with my family because I hardly saw her [despite] To be at home, “he said.” I had to lie down. I saw the whole series of Landman on Amazon. That is good. I watched 28 days and followed 28 weeks later. “

The ashes will be ended in 28 weeks: After India’s visit, the back-to-back definition series have the potential to give the sustainable impression of Stokes’ captain. It has brought entertainment in abundance and a flood of victories, four of them against India. But his England does not have to overcome India or Australia in a series. The world test championship may suggest something else, but they feel the super powers.

When it comes to this and now, this may explain why England’s bowling attack 29, 30, 34, 35 and 36. Stokes, the 34-year-old, may have had no youth policy if he combined James Anderson and Stuart Broad. Now the old stagers of Chris Woakes and Liam Dawson are.

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Woakes, whose return, when he plays four or five tests in one series, has seven gates with 56. There were some thoughts that he could be rested, turned or dropped. “Outside of the rewards that Woakesy has not received with the ball, he is a very important player for us,” said Stokes, who has not recently been coated by flattering returns and focused on his old Trafford past. “Woakesy has a very good record here.”

Dawson’s record in County Championship Cricket is in strong contrast to the injured Shoaib Bashir’s: The Somerset Spinner has 84 in the championship, while Dawson scored 49 gates last season and achieved 840 runs. He could add more runs-he has more hundreds than Opener Zak Crawley and eight years after his last test was selected as plug-and-play solution. “When he was reminded of the Weißball team, he showed that he could get back in and go to work immediately,” said Stokes. “We talked about Nets briefly yesterday. I said to DAWS:” You are very different, so someone like Bash, where we both learned together at work “.”

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Dawson is a beneficiary of Brendon McCullum’s Job-Share, who impresses the test trainer about his new one-day tasks and was also left-wing. “Quality cricket player and very, very competitive,” said Stokes, who was in the character of the character of a player who is both newcomers and a veteran.

Injuries have the potential to redesign the series. India’s bowling attack is more exhausted than Akash Deep, who follows Nitesh Kumar Reddy, excluded together with a plausible replacement in Arshdeep Singh. Either Prasidh Krishna or the unkempt Anshul Kamboj will take the last berth for a sailor. India, after explaining that Jasprit Bumrah will only play three tests in the series, has decided that Old Trafford will be the third. The curiosity is that England has won both in which the world’s best bowler appeared. But if short -term courage is a topic of the selection of England, it must also be for India: Bumrah rescue for the oval and it could be too late.

The better news of better injuries to India is that Rishabh Pant is fit after the finger problem that prevents him from keeping Wicket at Lord. He achieves 70 in the series directly via KL Rahul, and both Shubman Gill and Ravindra Jadeja over 100. If the statistics can underline the importance of Stokes, the bowler for England, you can also invite questions about how his site leads. You can find an answer in England’s ability to win key moments of what a Stokes specialism can be. “The series was great to play and I assume it was pretty good to see,” said the English captain. It invites comparisons with one of the most famous summer in Cricket English. “The Ashes series from 2005 was great to see,” added Stokes. “We have gone in all three tests every five days so far. It only proves that the quality of the cricket was excellent. Two teams that are not very separating to us at the moment.”

After Old Trafford there could be nothing that she separates, or England could have achieved her most prestigious series victory under Stokes. Or, if the manpunic weather has its way, he can get something that he almost abolished: a tie.