Kohli, Brook and England’s spin newcomers
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman, Phil Tufnell, Steven Finn and Deep Dasgupta look ahead to England’s Test series in India.
With Harry Brook and Virat Kohli not involved in the opening matches, the panel look at the effect their absences could have on either side.
The team also assess England’s spin options and look at the role Ben Stokes could play in this series.
TIMECODES
04:00 Can England’s style work in India? 14:20 Virat Kohli misses the first two Tests 19:26 Harry Brook’s absence for England 27:00 What are England’s bowling options? 39:10 Ben Stokes’s return from surgery
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| 0:34.0 | The TMS Podcasts with Mark Chapman. |
| 0:38.0 | The Five Test Series in India gets underway on Thursday, now Harry Bruck, no Virak Coley for the first couple of tests, |
| 0:46.4 | so we'll talk about that with Phil Toughnell. |
| 0:48.9 | Stephen Finn, who was part of the Squad which won the series in 2012 and that actually remains the last time that |
| 0:55.6 | India lost a test series at home and Deep Dasgupta, former India Wicked Keeper who played in the 2001 |
| 1:02.3 | series is with us as well. |
| 1:06.7 | This series should be big, shouldn't it? |
| 1:09.1 | Deep, is it feeling big in India? |
| 1:12.1 | Definitely yes, there's absolutely no two ways about it, and especially how England's been playing last maybe couple of years, the kind of approach that the English test team has had. |
| 1:22.0 | Obviously it's a great view of kind of you know you can call it |
| 1:25.7 | testing yourself out as well against a strong England side and England side which is |
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