England star all-rounder Ben Stokes says that he will lose a tough game like the fourth Twenty20 against India on Thursday and that going into the ‘winner-take-all’ competition will prepare him better for the World Cup as he comes under pressure Will be used to. The Achyut 3-1 lead, the Eoin Morgan-led team stuttered in a difficult chase of 186 and went down to India by eight runs. The fifth T20I to be held on Saturday is now like a summit.
“Whoever wins that game wins the series so you know that’s great for us as a team, and especially with the T20 World Cup, we as a team have more pressure conditions. Come on, the more we benefit from it, ”Stokes told reporters during post-match talks on Thursday.
“The more pressure we have as a team, the more it will be for us in that World Cup, because the World Cup can end very quickly. Every game is a big game.”
Stokes made England win by scoring 46 runs off almost 23 balls, but he and captain Morgan were dismissed in the early 17th over off Shardul Thakur, from where he bowed in favor of the home team.
“One of us has to be there until the end. Given that many runs for our lower order are clearly less than ideal. In that case, one of our middle order needs to be there until the end. It needs to be. Bring it to the line. It’s always more frustrating when you feel like you have a game in your hands. ”
“Instead of going away and being very down on yourself you have to look at these things and assess them and learn from them. You know we have a T20 World Cup coming up and there is no doubt that this is a Will put us in the same position. At some point in that tournament, these are all the best learning experiences for us as a player, “he said.
Talking about Saturday’s game, he said: “This is a final one because if we don’t win we lose the series, and we don’t want to lose the series.”
“We want to make a habit of winning. As I said the more situations we get where we are pressured and the more prevalent we are, it just got to do with the world of good.”
Morgan-led England have been in excellent form in white ball cricket since their ODI World Cup victory in 2019.
“It is a great honor to enter any of our white ball teams now, purely because of how well we have played in the last four-five years.
Stokes said, “Even those who are in XI know that there are people on the bench, who knock that door, so the competition for places in this team is real, real healthy and it makes everyone Motivates to drive better and better every day. ” .
In the first three T20Is, the team winning the toss has chosen to bat second, but the latest match sparked that trend.
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He said, “This is the best wicket for us in this series. We knew that straight after the first two overs with Joff and Woody. The wicket was not like the top and bottom of the wicket, the bounce where it was the first pair of games.” The bowl skidded well.
“You give credit to India and the way they have bowled. They understood long before that it was really difficult to pace the ball and dig into the wicket,” he concluded.
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