Chris Woakes: Injured all-rounder ‘never considered not batting’ for England v India

Im I wouldn’t have lived with myself if I hadn’t tried it, ”he confessed.

“You just know you’re part of something bigger. You’re not the only one you play there. This is your team and your teammates, all difficult jobs and sacrifices, people watching at home and on the ground. You feel a task for everyone.”

Atkinson still had to run as he tried to protect the woaks from the strike. On the first occasion, Wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel was in an open discomfort at the time Woakes.

“First of all, the worst,” he said. “All I bought was codeindi and it was a lot of pain. The instinct started here – I tried to run as you do it naturally when my arm was pulled down.

Woakes made three more runs in a 16 -minute stay in wrinkles. Despite his courage, the British 3-1 series missed a victory and instead of the Anderson-Tendulkar Cup.

“Finally, bitterly sweet,” he added. “I wondered how a part of me could be, can I defend the ball, one over, maybe he squeezed a run or was four.

“But the other side, ‘Thank God, I have not encountered a 90MPH bouncer with one hand’.

“And I knew I would have had to wear a few bouncers if I went on a strike. These were worried emotions, really. You were still quite exposed there.”

Woakes is now waiting to discover the entire injury with severe suspicion.

His actions were praised in the sports world and said, “He helped the people of the people.”

“Not as you want to be the front page news – you would be earlier for five small doors or centuries.”

He continued: “From the beginning of a test week, ‘a last push’ thinking, a physio table that wonders what the future is very strange to end.”