ColdWetPanther
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It misses the point though. It isn’t one or two players in the side; it’s all of them (well apart from the captain who seems to build his innings before throwing the bat).
‘Heard of Hayden, Ponting?’ – Michael Clarke hits out at Ben Duckett for crediting Bazball for aggressive Test batting
Former Australia captain Michael Clarke has shot down Ben Duckett‘s claim that England’s Bazball approach has been the reason teams have been batting aggressively in Tests, reminding him of the great Australian Test team of the 1990s and 2000s.Subscribe to the Wisden Cricket YouTube channel for...wisden.com
When they get the conditions they want (docile pitches, febrile crowds and hostile press) it can put a team under significant pressure and we saw that in the Ashes; from 2-nil up we should have smashed them given the state of the series and the talent mismatch, but momentum was turned due to the factors above.
