Moeen Ali's cricket career can be described in a single phrase, 'Life is a circle... What goes around comes around.' After making his debut for the England national team in ODIs in February 2014, he himself took a lot of time to realise his true talent. The Birmingham-born all-rounder started his career as an elegant batsman following the surprise retirement of Graeme Swann. However, it was his magical off-spin that earned him all the fame later in his life. In the recent past, he developed himself into a promising batsman at the number three spot in the Test team. He played his first Test against Sri Lanka in June 2014 at Lord's. He contributed with both bat and ball to cement his place in the Test team.
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It was Roach who sowed the seeds of England's match-defining 77 all out in Bridgetown and he took 4-30 here.
It was a third batting collapse in the West Indies for England, which was skittled for 46 in Trinidad in 1994 and 51 in Jamaica a decade ago.
Moeen Ali and Jack Leech took four wickets apiece as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 284 in their second innings after a strong last-wicket partnership and ended up losing the match by 42 runs.
England captain Joe Root was named man of the match for his magnificent 124 that helped England to a total of 346 in their second innings.
The Englishman's allegations had prompted Cricket Australia to conduct interviews of 15 players from the squad along with coaches and team management.
Moeen, 31, made the accusation in his soon-to-be-released autobiography, where he also labelled the 2015 Australian touring party as "rude" and "disrespectful".
Moeen stressed on the fact that the Australian were just 'rude' and disrespectful whenever they play and was quite disturbed after the incident took place.
On day one of the fifth Test, Ali played and missed on umpteen occasions, but just didn't nick the ball, much to India's frustrations particularly Mohammed Shami.
Chasing a tricky target of 245, India were bowled out for a paltry 184 on the fourth day on a pitch where survival wasn't a problem.
Buttler scored 69 and put on vital lower-order partnerships with Ben Stokes and Sam Curran as England recovered from 122 for five to finish at 260 for eight eight at stumps.
In contrast to Moeen Ali's five-wicket haul, Ashwin struggled to get going on Saturday and finished with 1-78 in 35 overs despite his good bowling form earlier in the series.
Pujara's innings and his last-wicket stand of 46 runs with Jasprit Bumrah (6) have virtually made the encounter at Rose Bowl a game of second innings.
Stokes suffered a knee injury during the third Test, his first since being acquitted of affray charges after a brawl outside a pub.
The two players were initially named in England's 13-man squad for the opening game of the five-match Test series against India at Edgbaston.
Bairstow moved up four spots to No.11, Buttler went up to No.16 while Roy entered the top 20.
Ali ran through the top order with 3-43 and Rashid took 2-36 as Australia were bowled out for 214 in 47 overs after it won the toss and elected to bat.
Dropped from the England squad for the Tests against Pakistan, all-rounder Moeen Ali says his IPL stint will make him a better one-day player and improve his game.
The England all-rounder also rejected the perception that the Indian captain is intimidating and aggressive but is instead quite humble.
Ali also admitted that now he is not rigid with his opinion of Tests being played for five days as the new four-day format could help in getting more people.
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