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.
At the end of the third day of the Rajkot Test, in which England lost by 434 runs, Duckett praised Yashasvi Jaiswal’s entrepreneurial spirit, but rated the current England team as He also said that it should be done. Beat tests more aggressively.
“When we see players in the competition playing like that, we (England) realize that they play differently to the way other people play Test cricket. I feel like I should,” Duckett said in Rajkot. “We’ve seen a little bit of that over the summer and it’s very exciting to see other players and other teams play this attacking style of cricket as well.”
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ESPN Australia’s ‘Around the Wicket’, Clarke said that long before Duckett and England started playing attacking Test cricket, the old Australian teams played attacking Test cricket. He said he was doing so.
“He must have missed Australia for 20 years,” Mr Clark said. “When he was young, he may not have known what Test cricket Australia played. He heard about Matthew Hayden, Michael Slater, Ricky Ponting, Damian Martyn, Adam Gilchrist. Have you ever done it?These guys did it just like everyone else.
“Just because you hit a reverse sweep, switch hit, or ramp shot doesn’t mean you’re hitting aggressively.
“Matthew Hayden just ran across the wicket and hit a straight six over your head. He didn’t have to play a ramp or a switch hit.
Clarke feels that thanks to T20 cricket, there are different shots in the modern game, just not necessarily more offensive than those used by teams of the past.
“I don’t know… Look, I love the way they play. I love attacking, positive cricket in any format. And now with T20 cricket, we’re seeing a lot of different shots. , we’re seeing players play a full 360 across all three formats, something we haven’t seen very often in Test cricket.”
“I don’t think it’s a vindication of any criticism of Bazball whatsoever.”
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“If someone bowls a bouncer, 90 percent of the time you’ll see a hook shot or a pull shot.” 10 percent of the time, you’ll see someone driving a slip. There are varying degrees of demeanor, but no further aggression or aggressiveness.
“I’ll tell you how many innings I’ve been lucky enough to get to bat with superstars. When they’re at 20/30/40, if they want, they’re 7/10/15. We could have scored a point.”
“It was important to build the innings to put the team in a good position. Find the bowler you feel most comfortable with and go to him. Hayden, 2001 Test Series The way he dominated Harbhajan Singh was very aggressive and positive, but it was a real swing and not a setback.”
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Clarke went on to praise England’s adoption of the buzz ball, saying it was a “really good basis for playing Test cricket”, although this is not the first team to actively play it. He also emphasized that.
“I love England’s attacking approach and I think it’s paid off. They’ve created a really good foundation to play some great cricket. They achieved the desired result. and achieved it in this test [Rajkot] as well.
“It’s tough to play in India. You just sit there and block and you get something with your name on it.” He tries a reverse sweep and hits it straight to the reverse point. . That’s the flow of the game.
“People need to be realistic and understand that your job as a batsman is to score runs, and there are a lot of great players and teams in the world who have scored a lot of runs against great opponents. I think there is.
“England are not the first team to play aggressively or attack aggressively.”
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