After a 4-0 thrashing at the hands of England last year in their backyard, it will be payback time when India take on the English side in the four-Test series starting at Ahmedabad next month, said middle-order batsman Suresh Raina on Monday.
‘I was there in England and I feel the pain of losing that series 0-4. I want to give some of that pain back,’ said the Uttar Pradesh batsman, who would be leading India 'A' against the tourists in a three-day warm-up game at CCI from Tuesday. Raina was of the opinion that the use of SG Test balls in the forthcoming series would be helpful to Indian seamers. ‘There is a big difference between SG Test balls and Duke balls. We have bowlers who know how to get the SG Test ball to reverse like Zaheer Khan and Umesh Yadav. Handling SG Test ball in humid cities like Kolkata and Mumbai will be important. We also have Ravidhandran Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha who have been amazing. England has good seamers like Steve Finn, Stuart Broad and James Anderson and it depends on how they can handle SG Test balls,’ Raina insisted.
‘I was there in England and I feel the pain of losing that series 0-4. I want to give some of that pain back,’ said the Uttar Pradesh batsman, who would be leading India 'A' against the tourists in a three-day warm-up game at CCI from Tuesday. Raina was of the opinion that the use of SG Test balls in the forthcoming series would be helpful to Indian seamers. ‘There is a big difference between SG Test balls and Duke balls. We have bowlers who know how to get the SG Test ball to reverse like Zaheer Khan and Umesh Yadav. Handling SG Test ball in humid cities like Kolkata and Mumbai will be important. We also have Ravidhandran Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha who have been amazing. England has good seamers like Steve Finn, Stuart Broad and James Anderson and it depends on how they can handle SG Test balls,’ Raina insisted.