Mark Butcher slammed the preparation of the team and said, ‘I would be a little terrified if I were playing
Former England cricketer Mark Butcher criticized the team for a lack of preparation for the upcoming Test series against India. The England cricket team is set to tour India for a 5-match Test series that begins on January 25 in Hyderabad. The team will be arriving in the subcontinent nation only 3 days prior to the start of the 1st Test.
Butcher said, "Frankly, I'd be a little bit terrified if I were playing. Most of the guys haven't played any long-form cricket since July. Very few of the squads were involved a great deal in the rundown of the County Championship, which finished at the back end of September. We're now three months down the road, with nobody having had any sort of middle practice at all.”
He further added, “Everybody believes that going to India means that you’re unlikely to win a five-match series in India, right? But what people will be less likely to be gentle about is if you go there without having done the requisite getting ready for it and then get battered. That’s kind of inexcusable. Particularly given the huge gap that there has been for the Test team between July and now, there’s no real reason why they couldn’t have spent three weeks in India leading up to the series.”