England all-rounder Tom Curran may not have played red-ball cricket for over a year but he does want to make it back to England’s Test squad. In fact, playing in Tests along with his brother Sam Curran is a huge ambition for him.
“I’ve definitely got huge Test ambitions still,” Tom said in a joint video conference call with brother Sam.
“It’s a tough one because I’ve been playing so much white-ball over the last few years. Without playing Championship cricket it is hard,” said the 25-year-old.
Tom has played just two Test matches for England so far and both of those came in the 2017/18 Ashes against Australia.
“Over the last couple of years there was a huge focus on white-ball cricket with the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 and rightly so,” he said.
“Now it’s trying to get that balance between white and red-ball cricket and developing my skills and awaiting my chance. I’ll keep training hard and try to take my chances when I can. It would be amazing to play Tests with Sam. That’s definitely a huge ambition of ours.”
Tom also went on to say that the coronavirus pandemic has definitely brought about a shocking halt to non-stop cricketing action but he is hopeful that this won’t last long.
“It is strange, to be honest. I think we play so much now, you’re just used to rolling on from one thing to the next. Sport is a big part of our lives but in the grand scheme of things it is not the end of the world for us compared to some of the other things going on around the world,” he said.
“For the last four or five years, it has been cricket non-stop, all the year round. I think for everyone to be stuck indoors and not playing is a shock to the system, everyone is missing it.
“It is a shock to all of us, players, people involved in the sport, fans and lovers of the sport. It is a shock to the system but what we’re going through is nothing in the grand scheme of things.”