Aggressive batting and fielding was going to save the English Test game. Australia had other plans.
Birmingham, a city in the UK’s West Midlands, hosted the development of James Watt’s steam engine 250 years ago. This powered the industrial revolution and changed the world., a stylish BBC crime drama series set in post-World War I Birmingham.This week Birmingham rode on the coat-tails of the “Edgbaston effect”. The local, vocal crowd generated Watt-like energy with the objective of powering England to a historic victory in the first Test against Pat Cummins’ Australian XI.
Unlike the English during the first couple of days of the Edgbaston Test, however, we must not get ahead of ourselves. There’s still four more Tests left to play in the current series.
It was also the venue for the first women’s T20 event at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, where Australia won the gold medal.The Edgbaston crowd loudly burst to the fore, T20-style, in the initial four days of the first Test, but lost its voice during the white-heat struggle in the final hours before Australia’s thrilling victory.On the other hand, it was a fitting venue for the long-anticipated launch of England’s “Bazball” game against Australia.
The Bazball mindset emphasises taking positive decisions, whether batting or fielding. It assumed a national rallying status after the English team turned dismal failure into stunning success with largely the same team.This surge in confidence and Test wins took place against a problematic political scene in the UK, with the British wrestling with the rapid turnover of disgraced Tory prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. While UK politics became bogged down, its cricket team shone.
The true Bazball arc dates back to the 1932-33 Bodyline Tests in Australia, reaches a halfway point with Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket hijack in 1977, and is climaxing in the firmament of the current Ashes tests.It took centre stage on day one of the first Test, with England Bazballing their way to 8-393 at a remarkable rate of more than four runs an over, and then declaring with half an hour to play.
It was during the Bodyline series that Australia’s cricket captain, Bill Woodfull, memorably said: “There are two teams out there. One is trying to play cricket, the other is not.”On day three Khawaja’s innings finally ended when English medium-fast bowler Ollie Robinson produced a yorker that took out his off-stump.Proverbially shrugging his shoulders, Robinson later told reporters: “I don’t really care how it was perceived. It’s the Ashes. It’s professional sport.
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