Former Cricketers Wasim Jaffer and Michael Vaughan have been involved in a social media banter for a few years now and have been back with an interesting suggestion of having two divisions in Test cricket.
Jaffer took a dig at Michael Vaughan’s suggestion that two divisions of six teams should be introduced in Test cricket. Reacting to the cricketer-turned-commentators views, Jaffer pointed out that Vaughan didn’t make such comments when England was at the bottom of the World Test Championship points table.
Jaffer wrote, “Timing is everything. And Michael is a wise man who understands that. That’s why he didn’t tweet this a month ago when the WTC table looked like this.”
England climbed to sixth place in the WTC points table following a dominant 3-0 victory over the West Indies at home.
With their wins in the first two games of their ongoing three-match test series against Sri Lanka, England has moved to fourth place with 81 points from 15 matches and percentage points of 45.00.
The two-time runner-up India remains at the top of the WTC points table. The Men in Blues have 74 points from nine games and a PCT of 68.52.
England ace batter Joe Root picked up his 33rd Test century in the recently concluded second test between England and Sri Lanka. The right-handed batter holds the record of scoring the most test hundreds as an active player.
Michael Vaugh shared a post on X, comparing the English batter’s test numbers with Virat Kohli. The 49-year-old wrote, “Morning India”
Root smashed his 34th test century in the subsequent innings of the test match in his 265 innings. Meanwhile, Virat Kohli has 29 test centuries to his name from 191 innings.
England team will gear up for the final game against Sri Lanka which is set to take place in The Oval, London which will begin on September 06 at The Oval. The hosts will be the favorites to take the win despite the star players like Ben Stokes, Zak Crawley, and Mark Wood missing the test series due to respective injuries.
