Sunday, Jun 21, 2026

"bazball"

England coach McCullum vows a ‘watchful’ strategy against India despite ‘Bazball’ reputation

The tour begins with the first of the five-match T20I series at Eden Gardens on Wednesday, followed by three one-day internationals
Ashwin terms his spell during second England Test in Vizag as one of his best, offers his verdict on ‘Bazball’

England was chasing a target of 398 in the second Test in Visakhapatnam, when Ashwin chipped in with three wickets to set up India's victory.
Nasser Hussain lambasts England’s ‘Bazball’ approach, says it’s about individual performances

Hussain stated that the reason James Anderson and R Ravichandran Ashwin are two of the greatest players in the game today is because they are constantly striving for improvement.
Almost seeing a little bit of the fear of Bazball, says Cook on India’s batting in second innings

But after that, Gill fell as his reverse sweep off Shoaib Bashir took a glove edge to wicketkeeper Ben Foakes.
I haven’t seen it being done consistently, we need to counter: Rahul Dravid on ‘Bazball’

India had only lost once after taking an advantage of this size, and it came against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2015 where they went ahead by 192 runs.