Michael Vaughan is positive that the Indian cricket squad borrowed tactics from England’s “Bazball” book to pull off an amazing performance against Bangladesh in the Kanpur Test, which seemed at one point like it might be a dull draw. In the rain-shortened match, India batted exactly fifty-two overs and won the match handily by seven wickets to completing a clean sweep of the 2-0 series.
After restricting Bangladesh to 233 all out in the first innings, they stormed to 285/9d in just 34.4 overs, demonstrating the widespread acceptance of their aggressive strategy to push for a result on the fourth day. According to Vaughan, England has been doing this on a regular basis ever since Brendon McCullum was appointed head coach and Ben Stokes assumed the role of Test captain. He shared his opinions in a post on X, the previous Twitter platform, but it was harshly criticized by others who brought up the fact that players like Rishabh Pant and Virender Sehwag had been playing this style of cricket for a long time prior to the creation of “Bazball.”
India’s performance was praised by Vaughan, who also mentioned that it’s fantastic to see them imitating England, during a conversation on the Club Prairie Fire podcast with Australian great Adam Gilchrist. Indian cricket is great.” Seeing India turn into a Bazball nation is fantastic. Copying England, they scored 285 in 34.4 overs. It is incredible to consider that India is now imitating England. Gilchrist then mentioned how India’s style is known as ‘Gamball’ in reference to their head coach, Gautam Gambhir.”Gautam Gambhir has previously patented ‘GamBall,’ I believe you will find.” The problem is now completely the opposite. England must proceed with extreme caution, according to Gilchrist.
