It’s a pretty amazing feeling, says Jonny Bairstow

Apr 6, 2019 at 2:14 PM

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It’s a pretty amazing feeling, says Jonny Bairstow

Jonny Bairstow, a wicket-keeper batsman of England is still hungry for runs as he passed Zimbabwe wicket-keeper Andy flower’s 16-yea record for most run in a calendar year. During the first Test in Chittagong, Bairstow crossed Flower’s tally of 1,045 runs in a calendar year. He will play six Test matches more in this year.

“It’s a pretty amazing feeling. There were a few mumbles floating around that I wasn’t good enough. You go back maybe two years and there are people writing you off to never play Test cricket again, (so) to then come back and prove a few people wrong with the way that I’ve been playing.” said England’s Bairstow.

Bairstow is just 390 runs short of Michael Vaughan’s tally of 1,481 runs in 2002. England will play five-Test matches against India after the second Bangladesh Test. Bairstow wants to take the opportunity to chase down that record.

“There’s still a lot of cricket to play this year, and hopefully I can carry on in the same vein with the bat and the gloves. Having missed out for 18 months after the Ashes and going away and working on my game and playing for Yorkshire and earning your place back, you want to play as many games as you can for England in every single format going,” said Bairstow.

Bairstow has been criticized for his keeping, particularly at the start of the last English summer, but he had arguably his most accomplished game behind the stumps on a sharply turning surface in Chittagong.

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