As India-England is gearing up for the top most Test series followed by white ball series starting from February 5th 2021 in Chennai.
India being host will certainly be favorites to clinch the series against England especially after the confidence the team have instilled after beating Australia twice by 2-1 with depleted side to clinch Border-Gavaskar Twice on the Australian soil.
Jofra archer in recent interaction revealed how quality English attack can hurt the host in an unexpected way.
The last Test series England played in India was in 2016-17 where the host won the series by 4-0 and throughout the series English players failed to read the spin duo Ashwin-Jadeja who are equally lethal on Indian pitches with their variations and English spinners could not get more wickets on that tour.
Archer also added that his experience in IPL will certainly come in handy when he will playing against India and ended his conversation making a bold statement those Indian spinners won’t be able to out-spin the English counterpart.
“I’ve played lots of Indian Premier League here but nothing in terms of first-class cricket, so the challenges of bowling with a red ball will become clearer. In the IPL the batters have to come at you, whereas in Test cricket they can sit on you for a full session if they want and if the pitch is dead there is nothing you can do about it
So let’s hope we get some good wickets with a little bit of pace for the bowlers. Or even some turn, because if they spin, the matches will not be one-sided. We have good spinners in our squad and India won’t out-spin us,” wrote Archer in his column for Daily Mail.
He also appreciated host remarkable victory against Kangaroos where the former registered the series against the later by 2-1 with an inexperienced Indian squad.
“Their 2-1 win showed that you cannot underestimate any of the leading teams in Test cricket, even when some of their best players are missing. In fact, the one thing that impressed me most about India was that everyone in their team chipped in. If it wasn’t the guy who performed well in the previous innings, it was someone else,” added Archer.
