England's Curran brothers – Sam and Tom are harboring huge ambitions to play Test cricket together for their country after having played together in the limited-overs cricket.
However, Tom played two Tests for England since making a debut in 2017, but is more regular in the white-ball format, featuring in 20 ODIs and 18 T20Is, while the things are different for Sam, who has played 17 Tests since his debut against Pakistan in 2018 but played only 9 limited-overs games so far.
The two all-rounders have played three one-day internationals and four T20Is together for England so far and now they are dreaming to join the elite list of brothers who played together in the Test cricket with Adam and Ben Hollioake were the last brothers to play for England test side in 1997.
Tom said in a video chat jointly with his brother Sam, “I've only played a couple of test matches, but I've definitely got huge test ambitions still. Now it's about getting that balance between the two, developing my skills and waiting for my chance. It would be amazing to play a test with Sam. That's definitely a huge ambition of ours.”
Meanwhile, Sam said: “At the minute, I'm playing in the tests and he's playing in the one-dayers but the dream is to be all three formats of the game for England together. We have played a couple of games in the one-day format together. To play for England, in general, is obviously a great privilege, but playing with your brother makes it an extra special feeling.”
On the other hand, Curran brothers were expecting to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 which is now set to postponed indefinitely after India extended the COVID-19 lockdown till May 3.
Sam was due to play for the Chennai Super Kings, while Tom would be joining England teammates Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler at Rajasthan Royals in the IPL 2020.
Sam signed off by saying, “There has been some talk about the IPL in terms of scheduling later in the year, but no-one knows. It might happen this year; it might be canceled. Hopefully, I will play against Tom, hit him everywhere and then hit his stumps.”
(With Reuters Inputs)
