Former India player Aakash Chopra has slammed England’s batting in the recently concluded T20I series against India. He added that the
‘Bazball’ approach was more like inviting trouble as well. However, England faced a 4-1 defeat in the five-match T20I series against India as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “England, the less we say about you, the better it is because your game was extremely ordinary. Phil Salt in one match, Buttler in two matches and Ben Duckett in one-and-a-half matches. In batting, Harry Brook in one match and Liam Livingstone in half a match. The performance was was not there at all. They aren’t able to play if the ball spins a little and they find it difficult if it swings. They say Bazball, but at times I feel they say ‘Aa bail mujhe maar’, they bat like that many times.”
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During a discussion on Star Sports, Piyush Chawla also opined on England’s struggles against spin, with Phil Salt (55 off 23) being the only England player to score more than 10 runs in the final T20I in Mumbai as well.

“This happens quite often if the opposition team scores nearly 250 runs in a T20 game, you either see the team reaching 200-225 or they get out for 100-120, and that’s what we got to see today (Sunday). However, the story of this series has been that whenever spin has come, England have gotten out. Today also they started well, it was a destructive start, but after that wickets kept falling continuously. Shivam Dube came and put to rest all the questions people had raised about the concussion substitute because he too bowled like that and picked up two wickets,” Chawla added.