Bazball
The Inside Story of a Test Cricket Revolution
- Narrator
- David Thorpe
- Length
- 11 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Catalogue #
- 20630
- Categories
- Sport & Games
- Ratings
- 0 star rating
For 145 years, Test cricket was played mainly in one way: batters laid a foundation before daring to attack - and, even then, only if circumstances were favourable. Bowlers tried to bowl maidens, calculating that they would eventually force an error. But the old ways weren't working.
Then came 'Bazball', driven by new head coach in Brendon ('Baz') McCullum and captain Ben Stokes. What followed was one of the most thrilling revolutions in any sport, as a rudderless and ridiculed England Test team became cricket's most talked-about phenomenon.
They embarked on a brand of Test cricket that breathed life into an ailing format, breaking records as they went on to win 11 out 13 Tests before taking on world champions Australia in a dramatic Ashes contest that ended 2-2.