5 Strategies India can deploy to stop the English batting juggernaut in the T20 series

#3 Seam and swing up front

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

The absence of Jasprit Bumrah will hit India hard when they take on the might of the England batting machine but in Bhuvneshwar Kumar, they have another outstanding bowler who can trouble the batsmen early on. As has been noticed over the last couple of years, fast bowlers need to extract some movement in the air and off the pitch, if they are to trouble the English opening batsmen.

Regulation seam bowling does not seem to work and that is why Kumar’s swing and seam movement at the start is going to be so crucial against the marauding Roy-Buttler opening pair. They can decimate any attack with their brutal hitting but if there is movement, then they will be faced with a definite challenge and that is why Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s opening spell is going to be one of India’s most important stratagems against the English top order.