Former England skipper Michael Vaughan has lambasted opener Zak Crawley for his inconsistent performances within the ongoing Test collection towards India, calling him the “luckiest player” to have received so many Test caps regardless of repeated failures on the highest degree.
The 2005 Ashes successful skipper additionally recommended that Crawley take a leaf out of Indian skipper Shubman Gill’s batting play-book and do some course correction. Crawley’s solely knock of relevance within the ongoing collection has been a 65-run effort within the opening Test.
“There have been many players who have frustrated fans – including me – over the years, but he (Crawley) is right up there as the most frustrating I can remember. And in my time watching, playing for and covering England, he is the player luckiest to have won as many caps as he has,” Vaughan wrote in his column for ‘The Telegraph’.
“He has to count himself fortunate to have played 56 games, whilst scoring just five hundreds, and averaging 31. Among all the openers in history with more than 2,500 runs, he has the lowest average: 30.3.
“He’s batted 102 occasions in Test cricket, and been out in single digits 42 occasions,” the cricketer-turned-commentator didn’t mince words while highlighting every statistical detail of the right-handed opener’s career.
He then cited Gill’s example and how he made technical adjustments to have nearly scored 600 runs in the first two Tests of the ongoing series.
“It is feasible to change. Look at Shubman Gill. He got here into this collection averaging 35, and 4 innings later he averages 42. He has carried out that due to his mindset and technique. He recognised that he was susceptible to the lbw, and that his palms have been away from his physique.
“But he has been tighter, and that has allowed him to bat for long periods with greater control, while still putting the bad ball away. He has focused on defence, then attacked later,” he additional wrote.
