India, March 10 -- Former India opener Aakash Chopra has criticised Ben Stokes' batting performance in the recently concluded five-match Test series. Stokes's England suffered a crashing 1-4 series defeat to India as they failed to capitalise after taking an early 1-0 lead. The Bazball approach failed miserably on the Indian soil as Stokes also underperformed with the bat. The English all-rounder only managed to hit one half-century in a five-match series, however, the English media hyped their Test captain and compared him with the likes of Ian Botham.

Chopra criticised Stokes' form and said he scored almost as many runs as tailender Tom Hartley who made his debut in the first match of the series.

"The England media is saying that Ben ...