No Bazball for Joe Root? Now this is the most pertinent question. While the entire England cricket team has flourished under this new system, Joe Root hasn’t. Former England Cricket team star Michael Vaughan claims that Joe Root needs to play his own game and not Bazball.
It is not the thing that has been pointed out by Michael Vaughan. Even Alastair Cook claimed that Root is unable to match Bazball’s tempo. Which means not just Root himself but the England Team in a whole is suffering. Root is arguably England’s best batter and he has faltered in the past 4 innings while playing this aggressive style of cricket.
“It is time for someone in the management to put an arm around Joe and say “please just be yourself”. I think it’s as simple as the fact that he is too wrapped up in Bazball, the whole ethos of excitement and entertainment,” Michael Vaughan wrote on The Telegraph.
In the first 2 matches, Root has merely managed 29, 2, 5 and 16 runs respectively. This is in total contrast to what the Fab 5 player can deliver. The English pundits have claimed that Bazball’s aggressive approach is not the ideal suit for Root and which is why he is suffering.
No Bazball For Joe Root?
“This is particularly important against spin. Along with Graham Gooch, Root is the best player of spin England has ever produced. To see him bat the way he did in the second innings, that’s not Root, and it’s not the way England are going to win in India, just gifting wickets away,” Vaughan added.
Vaughan has emphasised that for England to win matches and be a winning side, there is only one thing that they need to do. The answer is simple. Joe Root has to ditch the aggressive approach and play his normal traditional game.
“I knew something was up when I saw him get off the mark in both innings with reverse sweeps. He doesn’t play like that. He gets himself in, then takes risks. Let the firecrackers play like that. Joe has to be the rock, the calming influence while the mad men tee off around him,” Vaughan concluded.
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