Britain disrepected Test cricket during Oval misfortune to Sri Lanka: Michael Vaughan

Michael Vaughan hammered Britain and asserted that they affronted Test cricket with their procedures in the Oval Test misfortune to Sri Lanka. Britain were banged for being over-forceful with their methodology.

Vaughan slammed England's tactics (Courtesy: Reuters)

Previous Britain commander Michael Vaughan has scrutinized the Ollie Pope-drove Britain group for their excessively forceful methodology in the third Test against Sri Lanka at The Oval. Vaughan communicated disillusionment with both their batting procedure and field situations, blaming the group for recognizing Test cricket and the Sri Lankan side through their strategies.

Sri Lanka got a noteworthy success at the Oval as Britain were left regretting their batting breakdown in the second innings of the match. The hosts were reprimanded for their over-forceful methodology by fans and savants with Vaughan being the most recent. The previous chief wrote in his segment on the Message that the Britain group has made a propensity for becoming careless after a decent period. Vaughan feels that the misfortune will act as a reminder for the side heading into harder tasks.

"They (Britain) have made a propensity for turning into a piece self-satisfied after a decent period."

"I felt that they slighted Test cricket and disregarded Sri Lanka in the third Test by being over-forceful with both the bat and in their field placings. Britain have made a propensity for turning into a piece smug after a decent period — I consider the beginning of the Remains or recently in Rajkot — and I trust it fills in as a reminder for the harder Tests that lie on pause in 2025. It is absolutely impossible that they will pull off playing like this against India or Australia," Vaughan composed.

"As far as I might be concerned, the power and fixation in the pivotal turning points were feeling the loss of this current week. It was each of the a piece wobbly, presumptuous even. They removed the mickey from the game. The response in Test cricket's most blazing minutes can't necessarily in all cases be assault, assault, assault," he added.

They went out with an idea to be super-aggressive

aughan felt that Britain were over-forceful with their field settings and put the bowlers on the backfoot.

"I felt Britain's bowling was fine this week, however I thought the over-forceful fields they went for harmed the bowlers and put them on the back foot right away. They went out with a plan to be super-forceful, yet this wasn't the match or pitch for that," Vaughan said.

"This was a top-of-off pitch, a few slips and a crevasse, with additional cover in. They had six slips, short leg and leg slip. It was as though they had 650 on the board, yet they had half of that."

-Source: indiatoday.in