Former England skipper Mike Atherton feels New Zealand is the strongest team across all three formats of the game at the moment after the Black Caps reached their maiden T20 World Cup final.
Root has been in sensational form in Test cricket this year. On Saturday, he struck his second consecutive hundred of the series, remaining unbeaten on 180 as England took a 27-run lead in the second Test
England's director of cricket Ashley Giles had earlier said that players from the country won't be playing in the remainder of IPL, which was postponed indefinitely last week due to the emergence of Covid-19 cases within the tournament bio-bubble.
Atherton said that any argument for holding the IPL would have become unacceptable when Covid-19 cases started emerging within the bio-bubble.
Michael Vaughan, in a series of tweets, said he found the ban 'absolutely bonkers' and thinks that Holder is 'very very unlucky'.
Atherton was joined by fellow England player Mike Gatting and former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara for a discussion on cricket.
London: Slamming the team's decision-making and selections, former captain Mike Atherton has said split captaincy between Test and one-day cricket is an obvious way forward for England."England's decision-making over the last cycle, though, is still
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