The Englishmen are all geared up to lock horns with Team India in a five-match Test series which is scheduled to start on 1 August at Edgbaston, Birmingham. The white jersey not only looks different, but it also brings out the more experienced bowling attack of the hosts. With both Stuart Broad and James Anderson returning to the squad for a long series, Broad clears that it is unrealistic to expect seamers play in all five matches if all the matches last for five days.

With the duo coming after nursing injuries, the England team management is concerned about the workload of Anderson and Broad as they will be looking to rotate the duo during five-Test series against India. Jimmy took a six-week break to get recovered of his shoulder injury while Stuart had limped off during a county match earlier this season.

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In an interaction with the reporters, Stuart Broad said, “It will depend on tosses, pitches, workloads. If (there are) two Tests of 250 overs in the field each, it’s unrealistic to think your seam bowlers will play five Tests in six weeks. But if you have a Test, where you bowl them out in 80 or 60 overs, that changes your thinking. If the pitches turn square and the spinners do a lot of the work, you might not bowl so much but come on when the ball starts to reverse swing, so sometimes your workloads can be higher if it is green and nibbling.”

Broad also mentioned that the team management has already clarified that the players might well be given a break which means that rotation of seamers is on cards. He reckons that the management isn’t looking to drop the players it will give bowlers to be at their best. 

Stuart concluded by stating that he will not get to a position where there is a chance to get dropped because of poor form. He said, “I won’t get to the stage where I am left out at say, Lord’s, and go back and play county cricket. It’s you’re missing out, fresh bowlers come in, you stay around [the squad], keeping talking, stay part of the unit so it’s only natural to expect small changes throughout five Test matches but the bowlers have to be able to take it.”