England Cricket Team has significantly revolutionise Test cricket with their creative approach, Bazball. This style of play, develop by Coach Brendon ‘Baz’ McCullum and led by Captain Ben Stokes, intends to amuse spectators while bringing about a dramatic change in how red-ball cricket is view and play around the world.
England show off their talent with Bazball during the last World Test Championship cycle, producing impressive success.
Their strategy remain the same when the new WTC 2023–2025 cycle got underway, as seen by the way they rallied to win the third Test of the Ashes 2023 series.
On Sunday, 23rd July, 2023, if the fourth Test of Ashes would not have come to a draw, the match would have gone in England’s favour as well.
While, India seems to have create its own version of Bazball, which former India opener Aakash Chopra has given “Jam-ball” in honour of Coach Rahul “Jam” Dravid because his father Sharad Dravid work as general manager at the renown jam-making firm Kissan, Rahul Dravid was known as “Jam” before he earn the “The Wall” for his style of play.
In the second innings against the West Indies in Trinidad, India became the quickest side to achieve 100 runs in Test cricket, doing so in only 12.2 overs.
As India’s first four batters, Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill form a strong batting order for the team, it’s also inevitable that their IPL knowledge would be applied at Queen’s Park Oval.
India will look for a clean sweep, as West Indies is already 2 wickets down with 289 more runs to win.
BazBall vs JamBall
While the second Test match between India and West Indies seem to be head towards a draw at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port of Spain in Trinidad, the visitors took leaps towards a victory on Day 4 of the match even as rain wash out much of the second session.
And the Indian bowlers first took the remaining five wickets from the West Indies first innings to bowl them out for 255, India then had a fiery show with the bat before declaring their second innings at 181/2.
With this, India set a new world record for the highest run-rate in a Test innings.
The visitors score their total of 181 runs in 24 overs, implying a scarcely believable run rat of 7.54 in the game’s purest format.
The previous such record which belong to Australia who had score 241/2 (declared) against Pakistan at a run rate of 7.53 in 2017.
Other than India and Australia, England are the only side to have achieve a run-rate of over seven in a Test innings.
India captain Rohit Sharma made his intentions pretty clear when he came out to open the innings.
Rohit Sharma score the fastest half-century of his career, bringing up his fifty off 35 deliveries before eventually being dismiss for 57 from 44 balls.
Ishan Kishan was promote up the order and even outpace Rohit Sharma which help the team break the world record for the highest net run rate.
Ishan Kishan brought up his fifty off 33 balls.
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill weren’t particularly slow either and score 38 off 30 and 29* off 37 respectively.
Despite there being so much hype about “Bazball” England’s aggressive style of cricket under Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes, it is India under Rahul Dravid and Rohit Sharma that has made this fascinating record their own.
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