Sir Geoffrey Boycott Disagrees With Bazball In Test Cricket

[sage]

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Former England player Sir Geoffrey Boycott rubbished the concept of Bazball serving as the new technique of adapting in Test cricket. 

There are no top-three batsmen that know how to play the new ball: Sir Geoffrey Boycott

Boycott criticised the attacking strategy from the word go in Test cricket and questioned its longevity. 

“If you think you are going to plunder the best bowlers in the world with a new conker when they are fresh then you are an idiot,” he says, smoothly dismissing the notion that 'Bazball' will inevitably conquer all.

“There are no top-three batsmen that know how to play the new ball, stay in, create the platform. Part of your job is to get through the new ball for your team – protect the stroke-makers in the middle-order who can take the game away from the opposition. Part of the job is to score runs,” he added. 

 

“I’d start by saying: 'What is English cricket short of, then?'” Boycott says when asked what advice he would give, in the unlikely event he were ever to be asked. “Do you accept that county cricket is the breeding ground for Test cricket? County cricket should be the breeding ground and it isn’t because England are short of fast bowlers that stay fit and quality spinners.

“There are too many ordinary bowlers,” he says of the current English game. “So how do you get county cricket playing the type of cricket that creates more fast bowlers, more spinners and more batsmen who can play the new ball? The only way to do that is the pitches.“

If we keep having early season matches with grass and moisture on the surface where little medium pacers bowl people out, that isn’t going to help England be successful. There are too many ordinary bowlers. A lot of the money they [the ECB] get from Sky is because of Test matches - and county cricket makes good Test players, or it should do.

 

 

 

[Vijy]

6 hours ago, sage said:

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Former England player Sir Geoffrey Boycott rubbished the concept of Bazball serving as the new technique of adapting in Test cricket. 

There are no top-three batsmen that know how to play the new ball: Sir Geoffrey Boycott

Boycott criticised the attacking strategy from the word go in Test cricket and questioned its longevity. 

“If you think you are going to plunder the best bowlers in the world with a new conker when they are fresh then you are an idiot,” he says, smoothly dismissing the notion that 'Bazball' will inevitably conquer all.

“There are no top-three batsmen that know how to play the new ball, stay in, create the platform. Part of your job is to get through the new ball for your team – protect the stroke-makers in the middle-order who can take the game away from the opposition. Part of the job is to score runs,” he added. 

 

“I’d start by saying: 'What is English cricket short of, then?'” Boycott says when asked what advice he would give, in the unlikely event he were ever to be asked. “Do you accept that county cricket is the breeding ground for Test cricket? County cricket should be the breeding ground and it isn’t because England are short of fast bowlers that stay fit and quality spinners.

“There are too many ordinary bowlers,” he says of the current English game. “So how do you get county cricket playing the type of cricket that creates more fast bowlers, more spinners and more batsmen who can play the new ball? The only way to do that is the pitches.“

If we keep having early season matches with grass and moisture on the surface where little medium pacers bowl people out, that isn’t going to help England be successful. There are too many ordinary bowlers. A lot of the money they [the ECB] get from Sky is because of Test matches - and county cricket makes good Test players, or it should do.

 

 

 

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