The fourth Test between India and England will be played at the Old Trafford Cricket Ground from Wednesday. Ben Stokes, who came to the press conference on Tuesday, said that the players of the Indian players will not back down. He indicated that the war could also be seen in this match, although he said that he would not want to start it. Shubman Gill and the fourth Test for the team is ‘do or die’. Earlier, in the third Test, the debate of players like Gill, Harry Brook, Ben Docket, Mohammad Siraj etc. were seen.

Big statement of Ben Stokes

Stokes said, “According to me, this (debate) is not included in the things we will start on the ground. I do not think the players of England and India are thinking of doing so. Rather, there is a time in Test cricket when the match is at a thrilling turn and the atmosphere gets hot. This big series has a lot of pressure to do well on both teams.

He added, “As I said, this is not the thing that we will try to start. This will make our attention shifted from the things that really need to be done on the field. But we will not be left behind. But we will not let any opposition team try to be aggressive towards us. I think most of the teams do not do the same, so we do not have the only team to do so. But this series has been a fantastic. Has been high. “

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We put full strength on the Indian team

In the third Test played at Lord’s, Harry Brook had reacted sharply when he was staying repeatedly to spoil the time in the final over. The next day too, there was a war of words between the players of both the teams. Stokes said, “It is natural that that night when Jack and Ben Docket had to go down to bat, after which these things started. We got the benefit of bowling in the last in that test, which we won. We won not only our skills but also with energy.

Ben stokes pc before manchester test: The fourth Test between India and England is going to start from July 23. Both teams will face face to face on Wednesday on the Manchester ground. Winning this match is very important for India. England are 2–1 ahead in this series. If India loses the Manchester Test, Team India will also lose this series. At the same time, this will be the 10th defeat on the Manchester ground of India.

Ben Stokes threatened

England captain Ben Stokes said in the press conference before the Manchester Test that ‘I don’t think this is something that a player wants to go to deliberately. All this just starts suddenly. I don’t think any team wants to do this. This comes in a test series when things get heat-up. This is a very big series, in which there is a lot of pressure to perform on both teams.

Ben Stokes further said that as I said earlier, we did not deliberately start all this, because all these games make a lot of difference and we are not able to do what we want to do. If those people start, then we will not back down and most of them are applied on the teams. It is quite interesting to play and watch this series, in this you get to see a better cricket.

Dispute between India and England

There was a lot of controversy in the Lord’s Test between India and England teams. On this, India’s captain Shubman Gill also told that Jack Croly and Ben Docket came not only 10 or 20 seconds, but 90 seconds late at the crease, which Team India objected to.

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