Amid the buzz of Virat’s test retirement, look at Batter’s up and down battle with Swing, the seams of England
If Virat chooses to end his career before the England Tour, he will end his career before heading to England, where he has played three Test series three times in his career.
Here is the test schedule for Virat, England:
2014: This is his longest game form in the adulthood, with countless ups and downs in his game. Riding the Bat on the successful New Zealand Tour, 215 runs in a century and fifty innings, Virat will have a lot to gain on his first England Test trip.
Instead, Virat took a disastrous tour where he struggled with high-quality seams and swing bowling in England’s pace duo of James Anderson and Stuart Broad. For Virat, 25, the bowling duo’s class with over 1,300 wickets is too many names, as he only scored 134 runs in 10 innings with a difference of 13.40, with a best score of 39. Anderson brought this weakness ahead and let the world of cricket see four times, and he fired him four times. With each edge falling off to the outside, Chinks in his armor are exposed. 2018: Starting from 2016-19, Virat scored one of the best peaks ever in Test cricket, running 4,208 times in 43 games, with an average of 66.79, with 16 centuries and 10 yards. The crown jewelry throughout the competition was the 2018 Tour of England. To hone his craft and overcome his past weaknesses, Virat is very keen to add to his huge test runs and avenge Anderson and broad humiliation. Virat finished the tour with 593 runs in five games, with an average of 59.30, with two centuries and thirty-fifty races, surpassing the running. The “King” also conquered England. Instead of surrendering to Anderson at once, he handled him in a class and aggressive manner, only he could show it. After his century at Edgbaston, Virat roared and he started the sole warrior effort of Superhuman humans, while the Bats were futile as India lost the series 4-1.
2021/22: The series is in Virat’s first real decline. It was a phase in his career, and everyone realized that Virat was human after all, and that after years of almost inhumane performance, he could be ups and downs.
His struggle with the outside off-line, the swing and seam movement of England surfaced again, causing him to pile up average numbers. Virat became the eighth highest game, scoring 249 times in nine games, averaging 27.76, with two and a half centuries and a few useful 40 seconds. Although the numbers don’t seem attractive, Virat still fought resilient battles in British conditions but couldn’t overcome them as he did in 2018. His competition with Anderson was rekindled as he fired him twice.
Due to the up and down nature of these tours, Virat’s figures in England are not really just about his talent and ability to bowl in overseas conditions. Virat performed 17 tests in England with an average of 1,096 and an average of 33.21, with 2 centuries and 5 fifty in 33 innings, with the best score of 149.
Will Virat board a flight to England? If he did, would the “King” have the final masterclass on testing the British conditions that could give him the motivation to go white? Only time will prove it.
