Brydon Carse highlighted that England’s Cricket team is ready to act upon their free-flowing style against strong opponents like Australia and India, just like “attritional approach” to their victory in Lord’s Test last week.
Carse made a half century at a run rate of 3.44 in 11.23 overs in the first innings of 387. He also got 3 wickets for 118 runs across India’s two innings, including two important wickets on the fourth evening, doing Karun Nair and Shubman Gill lbw from the Pavilion End.
“The atmosphere was incredible, the adrenaline was flowing,” Carse told ESPNcricinfo. “It was an incredibly crucial stage of the game that I was desperate to make an impact in, and I felt in good rhythm bowling that evening.”
“To be able to pick up a couple of wickets in that spell and put the momentum back into our hands going into day five was incredibly satisfying. At times, over the course of the series so far, I feel like I’ve been bowling well and maybe haven’t had as much luck as I would have liked, but that was certainly satisfying for me.”
“It was not the typical style of cricket that we would like to play, and it took some adjustment, but it shows this side can move forward and adapt to certain situations.”
“We spoke a lot at the start of the series about how to get to that next level, about being a dominant Test team and the best Test team in the world. And as this game panned out, we showed that it’s not always going to be one-minded or a certain style of cricket. So, it was very satisfying as a group.”
Carse shared that he was under immense pressure during the match but when it ended as our victory it was like “relief” to me. As India was just 22 runs away from their win, Ravindra Jadeja played a powerful innings to save his team but luck was not on their side, as Shoaib Bashir took the last wicket of Mohammad Siraj even with his broken finger.
“You wanted to fall to your knees, almost,” Carse added, speaking in his new role as an ambassador for Step One underwear. “It was unbelievable, after all the hard work that the group put in over those five days. It was the best game that I’ve been involved in with England. And, from speaking to the guys who’ve played a lot of franchise cricket and Tests, like Harry Brook, who I get on really well with, he was saying that’s his best Test win. So to hear that among the group, and to share those thoughts after the game, was a special feeling.”
“Once we got off that field and walked through the Long Room, it was an incredible atmosphere … really loud. A couple of the guys who had played in the Ashes said that’s the loudest they’ve ever heard the Long Room. It was a pretty special week.”
