England coach Brendon McCullum says he has no considerations that Ben Stokes enjoying within the Indian Premier League (IPL) will jeopardise the captain’s participation on this 12 months’s Ashes sequence.
A knee difficulty has lengthy bothered Stokes and he has come beneath stress in some quarters to relaxation the joint and skip his profitable stint within the IPL with the Chennai Super Kings from the top of the month.
McCullum, nonetheless, mentioned the all-rounder had constructed a profession on peaking in massive moments and the Ashes sequence towards Australia in June and July can be no totally different.
“I … believe that the Ashes is the script that the skipper is waiting to write, so he’ll be sweet. I don’t have any concerns,” he informed reporters in Wellington on the conclusion of the drawn sequence with New Zealand.
“I don’t think he’s jeopardising it. I know that Chennai set-up, I played for that franchise, and it is excellent in looking after the players.
“He is aware of easy methods to get proper for the large moments. His life is that, proper? When he comes again into the fold and leads us into the Ashes marketing campaign, he’ll have the bit between his enamel and I believe we’ll be all proper.”
Stokes has already said he will leave the IPL early to prepare for a one-off test against Ireland at Lord’s on June 1 and the first Ashes test at Edgbaston, which starts on June 16.
McCullum and Stokes have led England to 10 wins in 12 tests since taking over early last year on the back of an entertaining style of play dubbed “Bazball” after the coach’s nickname.
The second defeat came in the most dramatic of circumstances on Tuesday when New Zealand triumphed by a single run to become only the fourth team to win a test after being asked to follow on.
McCullum, like Stokes, was unapologetic for the decision to enforce the follow on and said there was unlikely to be much change to the way England approached the game.
“I believe there will be tens of thousands and thousands of individuals around the globe that sat again and loved that check match,” he added.
“Now we now have the chance to actually … flip our consideration to what is going on to be a fairly superb time within the guys’ lives – an Ashes sequence at dwelling towards a very good Australian aspect.
“We’ll go into it with a lot of confidence. We know it’s not going to be easy, but I’m pretty sure we will play a very similar style of cricket that we’ve played throughout the last eight or nine months. And with eight or nine months of development of that style under our belt, we should be hard to beat.”
A knee difficulty has lengthy bothered Stokes and he has come beneath stress in some quarters to relaxation the joint and skip his profitable stint within the IPL with the Chennai Super Kings from the top of the month.
McCullum, nonetheless, mentioned the all-rounder had constructed a profession on peaking in massive moments and the Ashes sequence towards Australia in June and July can be no totally different.
“I … believe that the Ashes is the script that the skipper is waiting to write, so he’ll be sweet. I don’t have any concerns,” he informed reporters in Wellington on the conclusion of the drawn sequence with New Zealand.
“I don’t think he’s jeopardising it. I know that Chennai set-up, I played for that franchise, and it is excellent in looking after the players.
“He is aware of easy methods to get proper for the large moments. His life is that, proper? When he comes again into the fold and leads us into the Ashes marketing campaign, he’ll have the bit between his enamel and I believe we’ll be all proper.”
Stokes has already said he will leave the IPL early to prepare for a one-off test against Ireland at Lord’s on June 1 and the first Ashes test at Edgbaston, which starts on June 16.
McCullum and Stokes have led England to 10 wins in 12 tests since taking over early last year on the back of an entertaining style of play dubbed “Bazball” after the coach’s nickname.
The second defeat came in the most dramatic of circumstances on Tuesday when New Zealand triumphed by a single run to become only the fourth team to win a test after being asked to follow on.
McCullum, like Stokes, was unapologetic for the decision to enforce the follow on and said there was unlikely to be much change to the way England approached the game.
“I believe there will be tens of thousands and thousands of individuals around the globe that sat again and loved that check match,” he added.
“Now we now have the chance to actually … flip our consideration to what is going on to be a fairly superb time within the guys’ lives – an Ashes sequence at dwelling towards a very good Australian aspect.
“We’ll go into it with a lot of confidence. We know it’s not going to be easy, but I’m pretty sure we will play a very similar style of cricket that we’ve played throughout the last eight or nine months. And with eight or nine months of development of that style under our belt, we should be hard to beat.”
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com