Silver Silva
International Debutant
If your country had to follow the Bazball philosophy in Test cricket, what would the make up of your Test XI look like ? Would there be any changes or would it be the same players just scoring quicker ?
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What would your nation's Test XI look like if they had to implement a Bazball philosophy?
- Thread starter Silver Silva
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Red_Ink_Squid
Cricketer Of The Year
Probably not considering we've not lost a series under Stokes.
Silver Silva
International Debutant
England haven't lost a series since Bazball was implemented..
It definitely has brought a lot of success to England
Kenneth Viljoen
International Debutant
I actually think Bazball might benefit South Africa a lot, we have a lot nervous batsmen currently who could do with a bit of freeing up mentally which is what Bazball brings ..
Red_Ink_Squid
Cricketer Of The Year
Might be a cope thing because their success upsets you?
Didn't they just lose massively to India and they failed to win the Ashes at home?
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Bazball was definitely not about changing selection at first. It was about freeing up the mindsets of the best batsmen who were already picked.
Since then we've got "Cook wouldn't be picked ahead of Crawley and Duckett" madness though so who knows what this philosophy really is anymore.
Since then we've got "Cook wouldn't be picked ahead of Crawley and Duckett" madness though so who knows what this philosophy really is anymore.
Flem274*
123/5
Haha Guptill probably does look at Crawley and wonder what might have been. He spent so long trying to bat 'properly' because he was playing for a struggling team with a national obsession for showing fight. Bloke should have just yolo'd it on the verrrry placid 2008-2014 home decks. No way would coaches like John Wright or Mark Greatbatch have had a bar of it though.
_00_deathscar
International Regular
Jaiswal
Shaw
Gill
Kohli
Rohit
Pant
Jadeja
Ashwin
Shardul
Shami/Siraj
Bumrah
Shaw
Gill
Kohli
Rohit
Pant
Jadeja
Ashwin
Shardul
Shami/Siraj
Bumrah
capt_Luffy
International Debutant
There's no Shami 'Or' Siraj. If Shami is fit, he would definitely play ahead of Siraj. Not really sure about Prithvi, KL and Shreyas both are pretty bazballish. And I definitely think the team would be better with Hardik for Shardul.
CricAddict
Cricketer Of The Year
Do think Root's mindset has got too free. Would love to see the old Root batting of playing a proper long innings.
Silver Silva
International Debutant
No Glenn Maxwell ?
Nintendo
Cricketer Of The Year
Maxwell can open instead of big Joshy brown.
mr_mister
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Bazball while Baz is still in the team? Interesting
SillyCowCorner1
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For us, it’s called curry goat cricket.
Chubb
International Regular
Did this in an NZ thread. On the principal they’d still pick the most successful/talented batsmen from the current side, it wouldn’t change that much. Allen would come in along with Sears and an aggressive wicketkeeper batsman. I’ve got uncapped Nathan Smith in the seam allrounder role but you could have Santner or even Sodhi or Rippon for a full time spinner.
Finn Allen
Devon Conway
Kane Williamson
Rachin Ravindra
Darryl Mitchell
Glenn Phillips
Tim Seifert +
Nathan Smith
Kyle Jamison
Tim Southee
Ben Sears
Finn Allen
Devon Conway
Kane Williamson
Rachin Ravindra
Darryl Mitchell
Glenn Phillips
Tim Seifert +
Nathan Smith
Kyle Jamison
Tim Southee
Ben Sears