Srinagar: England batter Ollie Pope has made huge claim about free flowing Ben Stokes led England Test team, saying his side can shortly score massive 600 runs in a sinle day of the Test match.
Since June 2022, England have maintained the highest run rate in Test cricket at 4.58 over 25 matches, resulting in 16 victories.
“There’s a real hunger – there always is a hunger – but now there’s an extra bit in that batting line-up. We want to be as ruthless as we can as a batting unit, but still play the way we do because that’s our natural game. Obviously being ruthless is being part of Test cricket as well,” Pope said as quoted by ESPNCricinfo.
“I got asked on day one ‘do you get told to play like that?’. No, we don’t. It’s just our natural games and the way we go about it. Sometimes we might score 280-300 in a day but that’s OK and probably because we’re reading situations. There might also be a day where we go and get 500 to 600 at some point in the future as well. And that’s a cool thing to have,” he added.
England already hold the record for most runs scored on Day 1 of a Test match achieved in December 2022 against Pakistan in Rawalpindi.
England posted a massive score of 506/4 on the opening day to surpass Australia’s 494/6 achieved in 1910.