Sachin Tendulkar reveals most ‘underrated all-rounder’ in world cricket. International cricket has returned after a gap of 117 days as England and West Indies started the three-match Test series on Wednesday (July 08) at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton. Stand-in captain Ben Stokes is leading the English team in the first game while Jason Holder heads the Caribbean side.
In an eagerly awaited moment, Test cricket makes its return in a world of new normals. In a time where the world is reeling from the effects of a pandemic in the form of Covid-19, England and West Indies are the first cricketing nations to get the ball rolling, in an endeavour to restart the sport on a global level.
Before the commencement of the match, cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar reveals. And Brian Lara discussed about the series during the chat on Tendulkar’s app `100 MB`. During the conversation, the ‘Master Blaster’ said. Acording to him, Windies skipper Holder is the ‘most underrated all-rounder’ at present.
Powerful All-Rounder
“Jason Holder is the most under-rated all-rounder, because on the field, maybe you will look at Kemar Roach or Shannon Gabriel, but Jason Holder only when you look at the scoreboard, you realise that he has come in and taken three wickets,” Tendulkar told Lara.
“When he is batting, he has scored those crucial 50-55 runs when it mattered, he is an underrated player, but he contributes on a regular basis, he is a terrific player to have in your team,” he added.
Holder is currently the number one all-rounder in Test cricket. The 28-year-old has been at the top spot since January 2019. He has a career-best 473 points rating. Stokes, on the other hand, has 407 points and he is at the second position in the ICC Test all-rounder rankings.
Holder has played 40 Tests for West Indies, scoring 1898 runs with three centuries and eight fifties. He has also taken 106 wickets in red-ball cricket with 6/42 being his best.
During the chat with Lara, Tendulkar also heaped praise on stand in England captain and national hero Ben Stokes. Saying that he would go down as one of England’s leading all rounders ever. Most recently, Ben Stokes demonstrated his heroics during the Headingley Test vs Australia where he single handedly steered the game away from the jaws of Australia who were on the cusp of victory.
The discussion previewing the test between Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar was posted by the former on his twitter handle.
Going to have to go with my men in maroon @sachin_rt @windiescricket https://t.co/BJJsMJ2aCE
— Brian Lara (@BrianLara) July 8, 2020
