England fast bowler Chris Woakes has backed Ben Stokes’ decision to ask Shamar Joseph to bowl more wickets instead of Joshua de Silva on the third day of the second Test against the West Indies.

However, in the match being played at Trent Bridge Nottingham, West Indies’ innings could have been limited to 386/9, but the Caribbean team’s number 11 batsman Shamar Joseph played an aggressive brand of cricket, due to which West Indies took the lead over England for the first time in the match. At the same time, Stokes’ decision was also strongly criticized by former cricketer Michael Vaughan.

On the third day of the second Test match between England and West Indies, Joshua led the team in batting, but the English fast bowlers’ target in the match was to take the wicket of tailender Shamar Joseph. But this strategy of the team did not work at all, and Joseph played a stormy innings of 33 runs in 27 balls. During this innings, Joseph hit 5 fours and 2 excellent sixes.

On the other hand, after this innings of Shamar Joseph, a big statement has come from fast bowler Chris Woakes. Woakes said that he did not expect that the number 11 player would play this kind of cricket, but we had to bowl according to our plan.

Chris Woakes made a big statement

Let us tell you that after the end of the third day of the second Test match between England and West Indies, Chris Woakes, as quoted by Cricbuzz, said – This was a time that could create problems. You have to go with the plan that you have made.

This might not always be true for you, but when the field is out on the field it is easy as a bowler to think that all you are doing is getting the No. 11 batsman out.

Woakes further said- You don’t always expect that the number 11 batsman will play some balls in the stands. It was a good game for them, that they played good cricket. We bowled according to our plan for a long time and in the end we got the result.