England can still stage a turnaround in the one-day series against India despite being on the backfoot, says a report in The Times Of India, quoting James Tredwell, who said the team will go into the must-win game trying to draw inspiration from their first game which the visitors won comfortably.
"Obviously the two defeats are in the back of our minds but I think if you look forward to the result too quickly, then you take your eye off the process. I guess we are just going into the game trying to execute our skills as best as we can and if we do that and perform like we did in the first game, there is every chance we can turn them over," Tredwell said at the pre-match press conference on Tuesday.
According to a report in Deccan Chronicle, Tredwell, who took a career-best 4/44 at Rajkot, agreed that the series could well be over as a contest on the morrow given the way India had rebounded from defeat in the opening game.
“We go into every game trying to win it, regardless of how the series is standing. It is in the back of your mind, isn't it, but you have to focus on the next ball and then hopefully things take care of themselves as far as the results are concerned.
“It can be quite easy in this part of the world that if you get on a bad trot, you can let your heads drop and we can't allow that to creep in. Obviously, we played really well in the first game. We will try to draw on that performance and try and reach those heights as opposed to dwelling on the poor performances of the last two."
Meanwhile a report in Indian express says that if he wasn’t a contemporary of Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar, Tredwell might have had a run of games in the longer format. How well he would have done is debatable — his accurate, minimally-spun round-arm off breaks somehow seem made for limited-overs cricket.
“But the selectors are unlikely to ponder such questions anytime in the near future. Swann and Panesar, unfortunately for Tredwell, exist, and are bowling as well as they ever have. Had Swann been available for selection, Tredwell may not have gotten to play the ODIs,” says the report, adding that as is the case with a couple of members of England’s pace attack. Jade Dernbach and Chris Woakes may not have made the squad if James Anderson and Stuart Broad were around.
“Joe Root has had a chance to display his precocious maturity with the bat and surprising skill as an off spinner only because Jonathan Trott and Jonny Bairstow weren’t part of the squad.”