Can it work in Sub C?
Can it work in Aus/SA/NZ ?
WI ?
Can it work in Aus/SA/NZ ?
WI ?
Can Bazball work in Tests abroad?
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07-06-2022, 12:08 AM
Can it work in Sub C?
Can it work in Aus/SA/NZ ? WI ? 07-06-2022, 12:09 AM
The pitches this summer have been very good for bat and ball and have not broken down a lot making chasing much easier in the 4th dig.
As Stokes said I think teams are now gonna be shitting bricks in the 3rd innings cuz that now becomes a do or die innings in tests vs Eng or any other side that adopts this style (realistically I can only see Aus or India doing it right now with the resources available) Probably easy/not that hard to do it in Aus as pitches are flat as. Sa/NZ will be tricky but with Baz at the helm they will use the Kookabura better maybe and set up 4th innings for them? Sub C will be hard but who knows... 07-06-2022, 04:19 AM
Sub C will be hard except when the opposition plays like we did in the last match
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07-06-2022, 04:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-06-2022, 06:57 AM by Charu26.)
Start a poll mateyy
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#PunchiHapanna #StuffdotCodotNZ #Kahabathgedara 07-07-2022, 01:06 PM
I think many has this wrong impression that Bazball is scoring 6s and 4s every over.
In fact, we saw how Root and Bairstow played when they were put under pressure. Absorbed the pressure, rotated the strike and played it like the middle overs in an ODI. So mostly with singles and stuff they still managed to maintain 4 runs an over. Stokes in the presser said - the right way to put it is that in any given situation, they will try to take the positive option. Root said this too in the interviews. It's only Stokes, whose been batting a bit like a maniac. But I guess there's a reason behind that as well as we discussed before. So hopefully, once he's satisfied with that he will tone it back in a bit. So I don't see it being big problem, if they bat like this in a sensible manner. They'll always try to move the game forward without getting bogged down. In terms of bowling, it means always looking for wickets. The tricky part would be understanding what constitutes an attacking field in the subcontinent. It could be more fielders in front of the wicket rather than slips and gullys etc. So getting that balance could be quite tricky. Australia did it brilliantly in 2004. I think if England continues to play this way, teams will struggle to time their declarations right. They might try to bat out time from the game. Stokes is pretty clear that they won't play for draws. It's either win or lose. What a great place to be.
I didn't see the light until I was already a man and by then it was nothing to me but blinding.
07-07-2022, 01:24 PM
Also interesting to see what Elgar does if SA win the toss.
Stokes wants to chase. So does SA then put England in good conditions to bat? Quite the conundrum lol
I didn't see the light until I was already a man and by then it was nothing to me but blinding.
07-07-2022, 01:30 PM
(07-07-2022, 01:24 PM)Keshan Wrote: Also interesting to see what Elgar does if SA win the toss. I cant wait for the South Africa series. 2 teams resurging with heaps of talent 07-09-2022, 01:16 PM
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/england-test-cricket-brendon-mccullum-i-don-t-really-like-that-silly-term-bazball-1323779
Brendon McCullum, England's Test coach, has said that he has no idea what 'Bazball' means and suggested that the phrase has missed the nuances of his side's new approach. 'Bazball' was termed by Andrew Miller, ESPNcricinfo's UK editor, on an episode of the Switch Hit podcast recorded before the start of England's series against New Zealand last month to describe the positive style of play that McCullum's old side had adopted under his captaincy. England have since adopted an ultra-attacking method with the bat and won all four of their Tests under McCullum's leadership, sweeping New Zealand 3-0 and winning the rescheduled fifth Test against India to level the series at 2-2, chasing 270-plus in the fourth innings of all four Tests. "I don't have any idea what 'Bazball' is," McCullum told SEN radio's WA Breakfast show. "It's not just all crash and burn, if you look at the approach, and that's why I don't really like that silly term that people are throwing out there. "Because there's actually quite a bit of thought that goes into how the guys manufacture their performances and when they put pressure on bowlers and which bowlers they put pressure on. There's also times where they've absorbed pressure beautifully as well." McCullum was asked by host Adam Gilchrist whether he felt as though England's ultra-attacking style had "changed the landscape" of Test cricket, a suggestion which he denied. "I certainly wouldn't say that," he said. "All we try and do is play a brand of cricket which gives the guys the greatest amount of satisfaction and gives them the best opportunity. We've also got an obligation to entertain. "It's been a challenging period for those who love the game of Test cricket because society has changed and people don't necessarily have five days to sit down and watch cricket anymore, so we need to make sure that the product that we've got and the product that we're taking to the people is worthy of their time and is able to captivate some of those imaginations. "So that's one of the fundamental reasons why the guys are wanting to play this style of cricket and it seems to really resonate with them as well. From my point of view as a coach, it certainly resonates with me because it's how I like to see the game played, and the same as the skipper [Ben Stokes]." McCullum added that one of the key tenets of England's success had been their ability to "block out" the "external noise" generated by the British media. "The media over here, it is a huge beast and sometimes the negative and the positive can seep into an environment," he said. "One thing we've tried to do is just be totally honest with one another and try and block some of that external stuff out and quieten down some of that noise. I think that's helped." |
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