Former England captain Michael Vaughan accused India of copying the Bazball style of batting that England are known to do in Tests over the last two years. Since Brendon McCullum took over as head coach and Ben Stokes became Test captain, England have adopted an aggressive and attacking batting style in Test cricket to achieve tremendous success as well. Meanwhile, the second India-Bangladesh Test saw rain washed out in the first three days with only 35 overs of action possible as well.
However, India forced a result in their favour by playing the aggressive route with the bat in the middle of Day 4, scoring 285/9 declared in under 35 overs in their first innings as well. Vaughan took to his social media immediately and shared how India were playing like Bazball as well.
However, former Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist mentioned how India’s style was being called as Gamball with reference to their new head coach Gautam Gambhir, Vaughan said, “Gamball looks very similar to Bazball to me. I did notice that yesterday (Day 4 of India-Bangladesh Test) when it was happening. This is good to watch. So I tweeted ‘I see England are playing Bazball.’ It had 1.2 million views and had 2000 responses. Can you look at any legalities of this. Do England charge them for this?”
“I’ve to say, this is a remarkable Test match. India went out to bat and look Indian cricket is fantastic with everything they deliver. It is great to see India now becoming Bazballers. They got 285 in 34.4 overs, so they copied England. It’s off the scale to think that India are now copying England, that is terrific,” he again said.
Notably, during their first innings batting display, India became the fastest to team scores of 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 in Test history as well.
“To be honest, we had to think a lot to keep the game moving forward. When we came on day four, we wanted to get them [Bangladesh] out as early as possible and see what we can do with the bat. It was not about the runs we got but the overs we wanted to bowl at them. The batters were willing to take the risk and we were ready to give ourselves a chance at a result,” he concluded.
