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Jonny Bairstow expresses his desire to play all the formats of the game for a long time

England star batter has expressed his desire to play all the three formats of the game for a long time in an interview given to skysports.

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Jonny Bairstow is in the form of his life in Test cricket. The batter has stormed into the list of top ten batters in Tests due to his recent purple patch. Bairstow is also the leading run-scorer in Tests for the year 2022, having scored 994 runs at an average of 76 in eight Test matches. The explosive batter has added six hundreds and one fifty to his name in the year so far.

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The 32-year-old has recently expressed his desire to play all three formats for as long as possible. The batter also highlighted the challenges of playing all the formats as there’s hardly any rest given to the players due to a packed schedule in a calendar year.

“Naturally there are challenges we’ve seen that over a period of time but I will be trying to play all of them for as long as possible. I will be going all out for as long as I can. There might come a time for different reasons that you do have to make a decision that’s part and parcel of life, part and parcel of cricket but in the near future I don’t see myself making a choice,” Bairstow said in an interview with Michael Atherton before the second ODI between England and South Africa.

“I’m loving being part of all three squads of England. The every individual squad is different in itself which is great to be a part of. It’s exciting, you got new freshness, new faces and energy around it because you’re going into a new format,” the right-handed batter added.

After the retirement of Ben Stokes, Bairstow is only one of the few players left for England to play all the formats in international cricket. With the packed calendar, it becomes extremely difficult for players to represent their country in all the formats in modern times.

In the coming years, we might see more international stars retiring from a particular format to elongate their career in their preferred format of the game.

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