Indian cricket workforce skipper Rohit Sharma is thought for his quirky solutions and taking witty digs at press conferences. Sharma punctured England’s Bazball delight forward of the fifth and ultimate Check on the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on 6 March, saying he nonetheless does not know what precisely ‘Bazball’ really means.
On being requested concerning the remark from England batter Ben Duckett concerning the visiting workforce taking credit score for Yashasvi Jaiswal’s attacking heroics, the Indian skipper urged to the England workforce that they’ve most likely not seen Rishabh Pant bat.
“There was a man referred to as Rishabh Pant in our workforce, most likely Ben Duckett hasn’t seen him play,” Hindustan Occasions quoted Rohit as saying throughout the press convention.
Jaiswal emerged as India’s top-scoring batter within the ongoing Check sequence towards England, scoring 655 runs in 4 matches to this point at a mean of 94.57 and a strike fee of 78.63.
Earlier, Duckett had urged that the England workforce’s ‘Bazball’ model of play needs to be given credit score for encouraging the left-handed Indian opener to play in the way in which he has batted to this point.
“Once you see gamers from the opposition taking part in like that, it nearly looks like we must always take some credit score that they are taking part in in a different way than how different individuals play Check cricket,” Duckett had stated.
Not solely Sharma, however even former England captain Nasser Hussain discovered Duckett’s remark deplorable.
“He is not realized from you. He is realized from his upbringing, all of the onerous yards he needed to put in rising up. If something, lads, take a look at him and study from him. I hope there’s just a little little bit of self-introspection happening. In any other case, it turns into a cult – and, at instances, Bazball and this regime has been described as such, the place you can’t criticise inside or externally,” NDTV quoted Hussain as saying on Sky Sports activities.
On Bazball:
Rohit, throughout the press convention, admitted England have performed higher cricket than what the Joe Root-led facet performed the final time they toured right here in 2021. Nonetheless, he stated that he was but to determine the true that means of Bazball.
“I simply don’t know what Bazball means. I haven’t seen wild swinging from anybody. England have performed higher cricket than they had been right here final time. However I nonetheless don’t know what Bazball means,” Hindustan Occasions quoted Rohit as saying to reporters on Wednesday.
The time period ‘Bazball’ gained recognition after former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, fondly referred to as Baz, grew to become the top coach of England’s Check workforce, whereas Ben Stokes took over the captaincy duties from Joe Root.
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Printed: 06 Mar 2024, 04:49 PM IST
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