Bazball is the gift that keeps on giving as Old Lady goes into meltdown:
Rishi Sunak has weighed into the row over Jonny Bairstow’s controversial dismissal at Lord’s on Sunday, saying Australia did not act in the spirit of the game.
Downing Street said it was the prime minister’s belief that the Australian team had contravened the spirit of cricket by stumping Bairstow out when the England batsman appeared to believe the ball was not in play during a heated final day of the second Ashes test.
All of this whinging is fantastic for Australia. It is avoiding the discussion that the Poms need to have about the obvious ineptitude of Bazball. We should egg it on.
Indeed, let’s go further. Captain Pat should quietly throw the Headingley Test. The last thing Australia wants is for England to abandon Bazball after a 3-0 humiliation.
We can then win at Old Trafford to secure the Ashes before throwing The Oval test as well.
A friendly 3-2 series result should be enough for the Poms to retain Brendan McCullum’s idiotic strategy and bring it Downunder in 2025 for a laugh-a-minute whitewash on Australian pitches.
McCullum’s record in Australia says it all. Typical of Bazball’s flat-track bullying style, he never won a test and averaged 26 runs per inning, twelve below his career.
English Bazball is the best thing to happen to Australian cricket since Shane Warne.
Let’s keep it around for as long as possible.
