Watching Indian batting line up- respect to Bazball.

[maniac]

For making test cricket watchable.

 

love the low scoring bowling friendly thrillers or bazball style but in 2025, old school 1920 test cricket should be outlawed

 

In the age of T20 can’t bear watching tuk tuks or aura less batting.

 

 

[Austin 3:!6]

I was saying exactly the same in match thread. You cannot bat at a strike rate of late 20s- early 30s anymore. Test cricket has changed a lot and we need to move forward with time. Any point of time, one good delivery and you are out and scoreboard move no where.

 

 

[New guy]

This is why people like Pant and jaiswal affect match results way more than those like Rahul 

[R!TTER]

It's not as simple as that - they generally play better on seaming decks, we do much better on spinners! You can maybe win an odd test or two on such tracks but the (much) superior bowling attack of Eng will prevail more often than not. Same goes for our spinners at home, the caveat being that your batting doesn't completely flop like it did for us vs NZ - yes we tried that bassball BS over there, especially RGS first over(?) at Bangalore 

[AuxiliA]

One thing that I really appreciate about the post 2015 Eng team is that they have started the trend of 'expending more wickets to get more runs' in white ball cricket. 

 

Also I like their fixation over Batting Deep no matter what. It perfectly makes sense. In cricket all batters don't have to bowl but all bowlers do have to bat at some point. Why not make all your bowlers work a bit on their batting for the greater good of the team.

 

[R!TTER]

7 minutes ago, AuxiliA said:

Why not make all your bowlers work a bit on their batting for the greater good of the team.

This was the case with every top team, heck even our c**** from 1990-2012 or so had decentish tail. It's only under BRat that we saw batters stop bowling or bowling even pretending to bat/field decently  

[vvvslaxman]

Isn't that how we saved the last test? England was one batsman away from blowing India away.  Jaiswal cost us the test with bazball approach. I stlll remember Dravid scoring 12 runs 96 balls in one of the test lol

[Lord]

What did Bazball do in India or even Pak. Got rolled over moment pattas were removed

[vvvslaxman]

2 minutes ago, Lord said:

What did Bazball do in India or even Pak. Got rolled over moment pattas were removed

Bazball was created for those who don't have proper defensive techniques. Those bozos coudl not bat out 103 overs for a draw against a side that had no Bumrah.  India batted out 143 overs despite loss of Pant , despite being 0/2.   

[maniac]

Bump- ab bolo 

[Chakdephatte]

2 minutes ago, maniac said:

Bump- ab bolo 

Isn't that individual choice? Some people may find watching batsmen leaving the ball for hours more enjoyable. 

[maniac]

Just now, Chakdephatte said:

Isn't that individual choice? Some people may find watching batsmen leaving the ball for hours more enjoyable. 

who are these people  

[putrevus]

It is less about Bazball and more about timidity shown by lot of Indian batsmen.This English bowling is awful and worse than India's bowling.

 

Plus all the flat wickets which were laid out on this tour. Geniuses here are finding fault with Pant's batting.

 

Pant is sole Indian batsman who put these useless English bowlers in their place.

[vvvslaxman]

1 hour ago, maniac said:

who are these people  

I definitely enjoy solid test cricket like this. I praise batsman who can show patience in this T20 era.  Infact ABDV himself has scored 34 runs in 174 balls to draw a test. You have to adapt yourself. 

[Lord]

4 hours ago, maniac said:

Bump- ab bolo 

Just 18 ahead with 2 wickets to go

 

What is so earth shattering they did? 

[maniac]

6 minutes ago, Lord said:

Just 18 ahead with 2 wickets to go

 

What is so earth shattering they did? 

They have a weak bowling, even if they get a 50 run lead and if India bat big, they gave themselves a chance to draw or even win the game. Now watch either India will get bowled out cheaply but take for ever to give a safe target. Which will take them 2 days. 

[Lord]

4 minutes ago, maniac said:

They have a weak bowling, even if they get a 50 run lead and if India bat big, they gave themselves a chance to draw or even win the game. Now watch either India will get bowled out cheaply but take for ever to give a safe target. Which will take them 2 days. 

Our bowling isn't great either. Tired Siraj and two rookies. England are atleast playing in home conditions. We were aggressive too when they toured India. 

 

Priority is to score a defendable total. If it takes 100 overs so be it. 

[vvvslaxman]

Bazball is a stupid cricket. If the bazball is so great they would have batted out 103 overs in the 2nd match that too without Bumrah.

[putrevus]

Bazball won first test by beating the living daylights of Indian bowling led by their ace Bumrah. Bazball did win against Bumrah , Shami and co to level last test series.

 

Indian screwed it up chasing 192.Let us give credit to them.

 

People need to stop bringing England's record in India. Who cares what their record in India is , we need India to win everywhere for that they have to beat England in England.

 

Edited August 1, 2025 by putrevus

[maniac]

Respect