Latest definition according to the Collins Dictionary a style of test cricket in which the batting side attempts to gain the initiative by playing in a highly aggressive manner.
What is Bazball?
In the spring of two thousand twenty two england test cricket was at rock bottom . They had won just one of their last seventeen they had been hammered in india beaten at home clashed in the ashes and then slumped lifelessly to a loss in the west indies. It was time for change and that change was named baz Mccullum he became england’s head coach , ben stokes became captain and together the pair concocted a plan to in stuart broad words run into the danger rather than flee from it.when mccullum captain new zealand test side and had been struck by the commitment to all out attack and anticipating and bringing a similar style to england he coined the term bazball.
But What does Bazball actually mean ?
This is how ben stokes described it getting his first series in charge said“this week as try and think like run the entertainment business rather than the sporting business because yeah i feel like we’ve managed to do something over last two weeks you know there’s a reason why we had twenty thousand people there at Trent bridge on day five because they want to come and watch this new band of cricket that we are playing so i set a challenge to the team have come out and be even more fearless more positive more aggressive than we were last week” those comments game by the way after england had chased down to 299 in just 50 overs on the last day of a test in trent bridge with jonny bairstow scoring 136 of 92 and stokes wanted his team to be more fearless more aggressive surely this was hyperbole yet there were england in the next test needing 113 and thirteen to win on the last afternoon with rain about and they took just 15 over to knocked the runs of the bazball era had begun.
