Online cricket betting fans found out that Andrew Strauss, England captain, challenged his side to continue improving, as he told them: “getting to number one in the rankings is nothing.”Strauss’ men landed on Tuesday in Dubai before a three-Test series in the United Arab Emirates against Pakistan, which will be their first since they ascended to the top of the ICC rankings last summer with a whitewash of India, and online cricket betting fans would really like to see how England will perform.
Pakistan have been able to overcome the controversy of the spot-fixing scandal to play some remarkable cricket lately, as they were able to seal Test series victories against Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, with very good cricket odds.
It means that in alien conditions, England will have to be at their very best if they are to keep their position at the top, and online cricket betting fans learned that Strauss is eager to ensure that among his charges there is no complacency whatsoever.
“The only way to ensure it is to make sure you’re just as desperate to go on and improve as you were a year or two ago,” he said on Sky Sports News HD. “Getting to number one in the rankings is nothing, really. It’s your name on a piece of paper, that’s all it is.
“There’s always a new challenge ahead of you, this one coming up against Pakistan is a very stern challenge, I think, and whenever an England side go to the subcontinent it’s a challenge anyway because it requires a different set of skills to win out here.
“This particular challenge comes at a good time for us. We’re confident, we’ve been playing a lot of good cricket recently. “If we’re at all complacent we’ll come unstuck pretty quickly.”Online cricket betting fans know that England don’t have to look far back to see how hard it is to win in Asia.
In October, India whitewashed the England one-day side in a chastening tour in which the only high point was a Twenty20 win over their hosts, and many English fans that follow the cricket odds will always remember this.