England vs India, 2nd Test: “Cricket Can Be Very, Very Cruel”, James Anderson Backs Haseeb Hameed

Haseeb Hameed might need departed for a golden duck within the first innings of the second Check in opposition to India, however pacer James Anderson is “positive” the batsman will get one other probability to showcase his expertise within the sequence. Hameed final performed for England in 2016 earlier than he made his quick look within the second Check on Friday. Mohammed Siraj eliminated the English batsman off the primary ball he confronted upon his return to worldwide cricket. “It is merciless typically, is not it. He is labored extremely arduous, executed the whole lot proper. He is bought a stack-load of runs the final couple of years and seemed unbelievable within the nets… cricket will be very, very merciless and I do really feel for him,” ESPNcricinfo quoted Anderson as saying.

“However he is bought one other probability on this sport, and I am positive he’ll get one other probability all through the sequence to indicate what he can do,” he added.

Skipper Root Joe Root on Friday surpassed former cricketer Graham Gooch to turn out to be England’s second-highest run-scorer within the longest format of the sport.

Anderson termed Root a “superhuman” and hailed the English skipper for attaining the “wonderful” feat.

“Completely, Joe has been wonderful. All through his profession, and on this final 12 months particularly with the whole lot that we have been by means of with the pandemic and stress on this group, to have the ability to captain the facet, and carry out the best way he has is nothing greater than superhuman,” stated Anderson on the finish of day’s play.

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“I could not converse extremely sufficient of him, and each time he goes out, he simply reveals the category and immediately was precisely that. It was simply his class from ball one. He performed fairly comfortably,” he added.

Root now has 8,935 runs beneath his belt and is simply behind former England skipper Alastair Prepare dinner, who has scored 12,472 runs in Checks.