Cricket Thread

[M18CTID]

For people slating Bazball off the back of yesterday's performance, that would be all well and good if it was us that had gone in to bat, chucked a load of wickets away while trying to twat every ball back over the pavilion for six, and been skittled for 120. However, we weren't batting. We were bowling and bowling shite without ever putting any meaningful pressure on them. That is as far removed from Bazball as you can get because Bazball is all about playing aggressively rather than passively.

 

[DMA's]

Is there 1 English player that would get in the Aussie's side?

Obviously joe root would but aside from that probably not

 

[M18CTID]

Root, Stokes and Bairstow. Possibly one of the openers to replace a largely out of sorts Warner these days. Maybe even Brook for someone as well.

Broad for Boland or Starc as well possibly.

Brook's definitely worth a shout

 

[ancoats]

For people slating Bazball off the back of yesterday's performance, that would be all well and good if it was us that had gone in to bat, chucked a load of wickets away while trying to twat every ball back over the pavilion for six, and been skittled for 120. However, we weren't batting. We were bowling and bowling shite without ever putting any meaningful pressure on them. That is as far removed from Bazball as you can get because Bazball is all about playing aggressively rather than passively.

Bazball is a term for a Batting style, not bowling
The thing with batting Bazball is your opponents and winning the toss and choosing to bat or bowl,

England vs the Aussies, The world champions of test cricket ranked number 1 in the world of test cricket.
You don't play the Ashes series undercooked with little test cricket and an ageing bowling attack,

Like I said Bazball is a form of cheating yourself and cutting corners in planning, you hope to smash the ball around the ground and score 600 runs very quickly with very little work running between the wickets, it works for the ageing bowling attack we have and gives them room for poor bowling,

Can England come out and smash the ball around at Lords vs the Aussies' bowling attack ? they will have a good score on the board to put the pressure on England's batsmen and they can set attacking fields, We find out pretty soon.

 

[M18CTID]

Bazball is a term for a Batting style, not bowling
The thing with batting Bazball is your opponents and winning the toss and choosing to bat or bowl,

England vs the Aussies, The world champions of test cricket ranked number 1 in the world of test cricket.
You don't play the Ashes series undercooked with little test cricket and an ageing bowling attack,

Like I said Bazball is a form of cheating yourself and cutting corners in planning, you hope to smash the ball around the ground and score 600 runs very quickly with very little work running between the wickets, it works for the ageing bowling attack we have and gives them room for poor bowling,

Can England come out and smash the ball around at Lords vs the Aussies' bowling attack ? they will have a good score on the board to put the pressure on England's batsmen and they can set attacking fields, We find out pretty soon.

That's simply not true:

The Bazball style and mindset is said to have an emphasis on taking positive decisions in attack and defence, whether batting or in the field.

Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting discussed the change brought about to the English Test team commenting on how McCullum had managed to "change the attitude of some of the English players to not be scared about getting out and to be fully committed to thinking about scoring runs and when you get the ball in your hand to be as aggressive as you can and set nice and aggressive fields."

 

[waspish]

We come to bat how long do you think Crawley will last? With his technique with batting he be gone within 10 mins we won’t get 200

 

[SWP's back]

For people slating Bazball off the back of yesterday's performance, that would be all well and good if it was us that had gone in to bat, chucked a load of wickets away while trying to twat every ball back over the pavilion for six, and been skittled for 120. However, we weren't batting. We were bowling and bowling shite without ever putting any meaningful pressure on them. That is as far removed from Bazball as you can get because Bazball is all about playing aggressively rather than passively.

This place is like the City match day thread mate.

 

[jimharri]

This place is like the City match day thread mate.

Nah; nowhere comes close to the match day threads!

 

[waspish]

This place is like the City match day thread mate.

True am more pissed of about the bowling and bowling shite all day sometimes we usually have a bad morning at bowling but put it right in the afternoon we didn’t it was lacklustre mostly!

 

[Postman Pep]

Bazball is a term for a Batting style, not bowling
The thing with batting Bazball is your opponents and winning the toss and choosing to bat or bowl,

England vs the Aussies, The world champions of test cricket ranked number 1 in the world of test cricket.
You don't play the Ashes series undercooked with little test cricket and an ageing bowling attack,

Except we play every home Ashes series with one warm up match. Agree on the attack .... but those issues predate this regime so are fuck all to do with Bazball.

Like I said Bazball is a form of cheating yourself and cutting corners in planning

Nonsense

, you hope to smash the ball around the ground and score 600 runs very quickly with very little work running between the wickets, it works for the ageing bowling attack we have and gives them room for poor bowling,

Again bollocks. Very little work running between the wickets?

Can England come out and smash the ball around at Lords vs the Aussies' bowling attack ? they will have a good score on the board to put the pressure on England's batsmen and they can set attacking fields, We find out pretty soon.

They'll probably try but I fear the worst. But then again if we played more conservatively do you seriously think there would be a different outcome. Have you forgotten Silverwood ball already?