Australia Ashes star David Warner mocks England over Bazball

Australia Ashes star David Warner has mocked England over their Bazball cricket after suggesting he’s but to witness their iconic type of play throughout this 12 months’s sequence. Australia retained The Ashes on the weekend after securing a draw within the fourth Test when rain washed away the ultimate day of play at Old Trafford on Sunday.

The Bazball time period was coined final 12 months following the appointment of England’s Test head coach Brendon McCullum, who’s nicknamed Baz. With Ben Stokes main his nation as Test captain, the aspect have endeavoured to play thrilling, attacking cricket with an emphasis on entertaining the lots.

But Warner remains to be questioning when the Bazball cricket will make an look. “I haven’t really seen Bazball yet to be honest,” the 36-year-old mentioned forward of the fifth Test on the Oval. “They are playing the way they have been playing and I haven’t really seen much of it from them.”

Opening batsman Warner has made 201 runs through the first 4 Tests of this 12 months’s Ashes and helped his nation win the encounters at Edgbaston and Lord’s. And the veteran admits he’s glad along with his performances this 12 months after averaging below 10 through the sequence in 2019.

“I feel like I’m in a good space, contributed well, and as a batting unit we’re all about partnerships, and I think the partnerships that we’ve had in key moments of this series have actually worked very well for us as a team,” he added.

England’s Bazball strategy might have received them a complete host of plaudits over the previous few months – however the type of play seems to have come at a price through the Ashes sequence. And cricket nice Sir Geoffrey Boycott took goal on the techniques earlier this summer time.

“England have got carried away with Bazball and seem to think entertaining is more important than winning,” the 82-year-old wrote in The Telegraph. “By all means entertain – but cricket is like chess. There are moments when you need to defend. Sometimes you need to be patient and accept it.

“Don’t just attack, attack, attack. England need a bit of common sense and pragmatism. That is all that is required. If England are not playing to win then these Ashes Tests are not that important. They are only exhibition matches. They have got it back to front. It is not about entertaining and then winning. It is about winning first.”