England Cricket Team captain, Andrew Strauss, wants to defeat India on English and Indian grounds in order to reach the peak of success and strength. He thinks that beating the World Champions can be bigger than an Ashes victory for the Poms.
Strauss is struggling hard to build up his team and lead them to achieve a bunch of victories in the near future as the skipper eyes the top slot in the ICC rankings.
Under Strauss’ leadership, Team England has bagged two back-to-back Ashes victories. The captain also earned the T20 World 2010 title.
Strauss has recently been relinquished of the One Day International (ODI) captaincy with a view to put all his focus on the Test side.
Talking to the media here, Strauss said, “I have never beaten India in a Test series and, if we want to be the best side in the world, we have got to start by doing that. I‘d say to win in India would be bigger than winning the Ashes in Australia because the conditions are even more foreign.”
However, Strauss thinks that beating India is not an easy task as the Men in Blue are much emboldened by their World Cup victory. He said, “Winning out there seemed a very difficult thing to do”.
But the skipper is confident of his players’ capabilities and he hopes that they will perform.
Team India is set to visit England latter this summer to play a bilateral series.
Currently, England is gearing up to host a Test series against Sri Lanka.
Strauss argues that appointing a different skipper for each of the three formats is a very positive move by the England Cricket Board (ECB) and he believes that this strategy will work well in the future.
Alastair Cook is ODI captain and Stuart Broad has at the helm of the T20 team.
Strauss will lead the Test squad and he wants to empower his players to claim more Ashes and Test series titles. His main focus is to win a Test series against India as he thinks that this is the only hurdle in their way of becoming a top-ranked team.
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