“I don’t have any idea what ‘Bazball’ is,” McCullum advised SEN radio’s WA Breakfast present. “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 really fairly a little bit of thought that goes into how the blokes manufacture their performances and after they put stress on bowlers and which bowlers they put stress on. There’s additionally occasions the place they’ve absorbed stress superbly as properly.”
McCullum was asked by host Adam Gilchrist whether he felt as though England’s ultra-attacking style had “modified the panorama” of Test cricket, a suggestion which he denied. “I definitely would not say that,” he mentioned.
“All we attempt to do is play a model of cricket which supplies the blokes the best quantity of satisfaction and provides them the most effective alternative. We’ve additionally received 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 many elementary explanation why the blokes are eager to play this fashion of cricket and it appears to really resonate with them as properly. From my perspective as a coach, it definitely resonates with me as a result of it is how I like to see the sport performed, and the identical because the skipper [Ben Stokes].”
McCullum added that one of the key tenets of England’s success had been their ability to “block out” the “exterior noise” generated by the British media.
“The media over right here, it’s a enormous beast and typically the unfavorable and the constructive can seep into an surroundings,” he said. “One factor we have tried to do is simply be completely trustworthy with each other and attempt to block a few of that exterior stuff out and quieten down a few of that noise. I believe that’s helped.”