England captain angry with himself for his bad body language and he insisted Test result ‘could have been different if we’d won toss’
Ben Stokes promises he won’t let his emotions show again when England miss the chance of a wicket or drop a catch.Ben Stokes promises he won’t let his emotions show again when England miss the chance of a wicket or drop a catch.Ben Stokes has admitted he behaved like “a grumpy old man” as England slid to defeat in the second Test in Multan, bowled out for just 144 on a disintegrating surface towere put down.
The game was played on the same pitch used for last week’s opening Test, resulting in what Stokes called “pretty extreme conditions” once the surface started to show its age. Brendon McCullum, England’s head coach, said Jamie Smith had faced “the most extreme wicketkeeping conditions you can come across”.
Stokes said the pitch’s deterioration, which seemed to happen “so quickly, pretty much out of nowhere” on day two, made the toss crucial to the outcome of the game – but that he “always call tails” and had no plans to change tactics for next week’s decider in Rawalpindi. “If we had won the toss it could have been completely different. It was always going to be massive,” he said. “It was always about batting first because the pitch was going to deteriorate. Me and Shan both knew that walking out there at 9.30am on Tuesday. When you come into a Test match and you know you’re up against it from the toss, you’ve got to put all of that out of your head and go out there and play the game. I thought until today, we were always there.
Pakistan were bowled to their first home win since February 2021 by Noman Ali and Sajid Khan, who became the first pair of spinners sinceto take all 20 wickets in a Test. Both were called into the Pakistan squad amid a host of controversial changes for this match. “A lot has happened over the last week, so for everyone to work together and come up with a strategy to take 20 wickets and make it happen, that’s the most satisfying thing,” Masood said.
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