The phrase ‘Bazball’ has turn into synonymous with the Ben Stokes-led England Test workforce that has been availing the teaching providers of Brendon McCullum. Through the attacking approach, the English workforce beneath the Stokes-McCullum duo has received ten of the final eleven Test matches.
While many the world over are hailing and backing England’s aggressive type of play in red-ball format, India’s veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin isn’t fairly satisfied with such a batting approach.
Speaking about the identical on his official YouTube channel, the 36-year-old Tamil Nadu cricketer stated that the bazball approach would, surely, falter in sure sorts of circumstances.
“You can’t whack as you do in a T20. Secondly, we now have a concept called Bazball. England is playing fast-paced Test match cricket. They want to play a certain style of cricket. But in certain types of wicket, when you try and attack every ball, you will falter. There are both advantages and disadvantages to this approach,” stated Ashwin.
The world’s no. 2 ranked Test bowler additional defined his level by sharing the recommendation he received from his former coach and said: “WV Raman used to tell me, “Hello, mister. Don’t challenge the conditions. Will you go to a beach and start swimming as you do in a swimming pool? You can’t, right? Likewise, if you should respect the pitch and play accordingly, the pitch will also respect you.”
Ashwin will subsequent be seen in motion within the third Test of the four-match Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2023 that will probably be performed in Indore from March 1. Notably, with the assistance of Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, India received the primary two video games in opposition to Australia and now leads the sequence 2-0.
On the opposite hand, England are presently on their New Zealand tour dealing with the hosts within the second Test of the two-match leg. The touring social gathering received the primary recreation in opposition to the Kiwis by mammoth 267 runs.