Ravi Bopara aims to be England’s main man
September 11, 2009
England’s current one-day opener, Ravi Bopara, has spoken about his ambitions to play a bigger part for the national side in the coming years.
Bopara had a dynamic start to the summer, completing a sequence of three successive hundreds in three Test innings. All were against the West Indies, the second and third in the UK, while the first was during England’s cricket tour earlier in the year.
However, reality hit hard in the Ashes, where he managed a top score of only 35 before being dropped for the final Test. Despite scoring a double hundred on his return to county cricket, he’s continued to struggle against the Aussies in the one-day series.
Bopara is rarely short of confidence though and says there is a lot more to come from him.
“Personally, I want to go out and get a big one and win games for England. I don’t want to get scores that just do enough to give England a chance to win, I want to go out and seal the win.”
England would certainly welcome a significant contribution from one of the batting line-up in one of the remaining four one-day matches against Australia. In the absence of Kevin Pietersen, no-one has stepped forward and all of England’s scores so far have been under par.
