England batting coach Marcus Trescothick has said that the Lord’s crowd helped to fuel the team’s one final surge on the fifth day of a pulsating Test match as well. As India and England head into Day 5 with each team having the hopes of a win, Trescothick hopes the Lord’s brings its full voice to help England win as well.
“It will revolve around the first hour of the day and how positive India can be or how dominant we can be and how many wickets we can get,” he said. “We are desperate to win. It’s going to be amazing.”
“We’ve seen four amazing days of cricket and two games which have been well supported. The last hour, with the energy around the ground was amazing. Everybody was invested. From an England point of view, it was brilliant. We love those situations where the crowd is really behind the team. Hopefully we get more of that and push on to win the game,” he shared.
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“If we can create an atmosphere like that – it might take a wicket to get it like that or for Joe [Root] to wind them up again – but the support has been brilliant throughout. And we will have a full house which gets to see the finale of an amazing Test,” Trescothick further added.
Trescothick also confirmed off-spinner Shoaib Bashir was fit to bowl in the fourth innings after sustaining an injury to his non-bowling hand.
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“I think the majority of what we have seen is variation in bounce from quick bowlers and people who can bowl wobble seam… that’s the talk of the town. It’s a dangerous ball on this pitch. We’ve seen a bit more bounce from the Nursery End than the Pavilion End. Hopefully it seams everywhere and we get six wickets in the first hour,” he joked.
“Both teams are passionate about playing the game and it is understandable that at times it gets to a boiling point,” he said. “There will be things that happen between the two teams but both teams know there’s a line you can’t cross but it’s not really been troubled too much. It helps the atmosphere in the series.”
