Still holding your nerve lads ?
Whither Bazball?
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Still holding your nerve lads ?
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I had to let my nerve lads go, unfortunately.
Too much holding ?
It’s such a fine line, isn’t it?
@junior-wells
Only if the batsman’s Willey
I put the telly on last night at 4 down, and watched through.
I’m not sure I’d label the second innings as a Bazball failure so much as just shit batting. I’m not sure I remember any delivery being unplayable. A couple of Umpires Calls, some thick edges, and there you go.
What did piss me off though was Ben Duckett’s interview, providing more ammunition to the “everybody hates England” camp. As (I think) Liew or Barney Ronay wrote last year, Bazball has all the hallmarks of a cult.
Indeed. I wish England would just shut up and play, just preferably not as badly as they have for three of the last four days.
To be fair ( no I haven’t been hacked, tis I Junior) ,to be fair our mob have had there share of collapses and losing to India in India, match or series, is hardly a mark of shame.
I agree with Sitheref, they just batted really, really poorly. But no shame in losing to India in India, no matter how heavily. I’m not putting it past this team to come back and win the next Test.
The whole Bazball thing is overblown and a bit embarrassing, but the more positive approach has been great to watch and has achieved some extraordinary results and some great cricket over the last 18 months, so I’m (just about) keeping the faith.
They were going to lose anyway, why not go down in flames? The problem with Bazball is they haven’t worked out how to Baz the bowling.
When I first heard this I thought it was about baseball in Mexico.
…..yes it’s a Sears poncho
*High Court Judge’s Voice*
And what is Bazball?
http://tinyurl.com/5ffupkpy
Rather than ignorance on the part of high court judges, they generally ask such questions to ensure law students many years from now are aware of who the parties involved are
I expected better than a link to Google, and we are all well aware of why these seemingly stupid questions are asked in court. I would appreciate an A-Word take on what Bazball is.
The biter bit
By a dead sheep.
Ironic we should have had a post about loyalty as – with 99% of my life spent in England (does Cornwall count as another country?) – I will be delighted if this England team loses the series… 4-1 preferably.
My dismissal of the whole thing is enhanced further by Talk Sport doing the coverage.
One thing Bazbal HAS done is stop press, TV and radio pundits from indulging in their pompous habit of calling for the scalp of this or that player should a result not go the way they would like. Players are protected from this under Brendon McCullum’s leadership and I would imagine the dressing room is a far happier, and more confident, place as a result. Whether thus justifies some of the appalling shot selection that seems to be acceptable under Bazball is another matter.
Can’t stand this ridiculous term. It’s just attacking cricket at all costs. Sometimes that works sometimes it doesn’t.
Occasionally a Boycott style innings is required especially when up against it on turning pitches in the sub-continent.
If it is considered some sort of cult that can’t be changed even after one of England’s biggest ever defeats then I would call it “stupidity”
To be fair, haven’t seen too much Bazball in this Test so far. We’re probably still going to lose though!
Unless Foakes…and as i type this he is out. Grrr
I wonder if my Boss would understand if I were late in this morning?
Delighted with the result. Take that Norman Tebbit.
I joined it with India needing about 70 runs with 5 wickets in hand.
The radio commentators thought it was even-stevens but, while they commentated, singles at a rate of about two or three an over seemed the norm. I did my maths and reasoned that if that were to continue India would win. Do the numbers. 3 x 24 = 72.
The commentators, meanwhile… single… were full of praise for England’s… single… stopping of boundaries… single. With 20 runs left, it was revealed that England still had men in the deep, recalling the ridiculous amount of time they batted in last summer’s 4th Test when they needed to score quickly. Now they needed wickets quickly.
Harmison – not the sharpest knife – praised the rapid over-rate of the England’s bowlers, when, clearly, this final session was the time to slow everything right down and make the Indian batsmen sweat out there. If an over can last five minutes instead of two minutes, make it last five minutes.
India won, obviously.
Stokes? Batsman… yes. Fielder… yes. Bowler… no. Captain… no, but you can choose the sandwiches.
He can still have his place in the team (see Ian Botham at Headingley), but, if he doesn’t like it, fine.