Ben Stokes England cricket team captain.
English Captain Ban stokes whose team is displaying an average performance during the recent tour of Australia on their Ashes campaign has foreseen that the fifth test match would be a huge and significant match for English team as they are still facing down and demotivation due to the team worst performance ever seen in recent few years. English team were very consistent from last ten to fifteen years during the era of Andrew Strauss and Eoin Morgan, who always led from the front and kept the team confidence on top.
The visiting English side will start the final march on Sunday, and the match is scheduled on the pitch of Sydney Cricket Ground. They are slightly up as they have defeated the host by four wickets in two two-day matches. This quick victory has boosted the morale of the team who has lost the series in consecutive three-match series. Although the win would be the impact-less and the winner is already decided.
This win has broken a long streak of losing performances in Australia during the last fifteen years, as the host already won the battles in Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth of the ongoing Ashes series. Skipper further added that regardless of the overall result of the series, this is very important that we go for a win in the next match and gain the momentum, as maintaining the winning is most important to march towards the final of the ICC Test Championship. So definitely this would going to be a big game as the English camp has considered the representation of England a matter of pride. The Ashes they have lost, which they never want to happen; however, they still have a game to win, and they will go to win so that they can leave with confidence. The recent form of the England team has been very disappointing and they could not maintain their level of form they are known for.The
English team has been badly beaten by the Australian media and would be returning back to home with huge pressure of the people, spectators and media in England. Personally stoke is master of strong nervous system as he lost the game in final game of ICC Twenty-Twenty world cup 2016 in last over after the brutal inning of Carlos Brathwaite, he returned with strong performance in ICC fifty over world cup and led the team to his team in final of the event, then he has performed significantly well in Ashes series and get his team won single headedly and final in ICC Twenty-Twenty world cup final against Pakistan he stood like a rock and finished the game for his team. They have made it clear to all eleven members of the team to perform exceptionally well to win this match win to their nation, as they have displayed discipline and shown form and class in the last week.
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He further added that English will leave for their country in next ten days but most important are those five days, when the team will be facing in final encounter of the recent ongoing Ashes.
They have announced their twelve men squad for the final match and included seamer Matthew Potts and Spinner Shoaib Bashir. The induction of new may change the combination and rhythm of the team and can impact the confidence and performance of the team which they have shown in Fourth match which England won by four wickets as mostly the winning combination is not altered by the winning squad in different battles.
Potts is the only fast bowler who has not participated in the recent Ashes war from their original 16-man squad and now he will be the part of the team after Gus Atkinson faced a hamstring issue in Melbourne. Bashir and Will Jacks are expected to compete for the final spot. Australia captain Steve Smith will have a look on the pitch of Sydney Cricket Ground and then will decide the final playing eleven. Most likely host will retain the same team however they need a replacement of Usman Khawaja who has taken the retirement after the fourth Test match after completing a remarkable career from the late 2010 to 2025.
In short this tour has exposed the overall performance of English test team and its alarming that if Joe Root is not performing well, the overall English camp collapse down and they fail to perform well. Once upon a time, team India was also the same, who used to rely upon the performance of Schin Tendulkar however after the induction of Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly , Virender Singh Sehwag and VVS Laxman, team India has transformed itself into a winning combination and still ruling over the world of Cricket. Cricket is a team game and everyone has to contribute with his talent to win the matches for his team as far as the current English team is concerned, they have a good talent on the benches and the lack of consistency is the biggest question mark on all those talent. They have class, temperament and legacy of test cricket but lack of consistency is an alarming thing that need to be taken care of. Ben Stoke himself shown off color in the series except his performance of Five wickets in first test match of the on going ashes encounter.
He is a player who always lead from the front and plays a pivotal role in the team performance and his role significantly impact on the matches. He is a talent who revere the match situation with few deliveries in bowling and in few over with his batting, just there is a need to realign the team combination and keep the right players in right position and their utilization on right moment, On a serious note, spectators were expecting a strong and balance encounters between the arch rival, have disappointed with the English team performance and the results are showing the one sided Ashes series 2025. England to rethink and reconsider to change his baseball approach in test cricket and readopt the classic style of test cricket to regain the lost place in world of test cricket
