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England’s Root eager to see ‘Bazball’ succeed overseas

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England’s aggressive strategy to check cricket beneath skipper Ben Stokes and head coach Brendon McCullum has paid wealthy dividends at residence and batsman Joe Root is eager to see the way it fares overseas in numerous circumstances.

Casting apart warning and taking the sport to the bowlers in an strategy that has been dubbed ‘Bazball’, England have chased down intimidating targets with fearless batting to win six of their final seven checks, all on residence soil.

They subsequent go to Pakistan for a three-test collection in December adopted by two checks in New Zealand in February and Root informed Sky Sports he hoped England would go from power to power with their attacking model of cricket.

“The challenge for us now is to keep going for it, keep trying to explore new areas in the format and see how far we can take it,” he mentioned.

“You really feel like you’ll be able to win video games from anyplace if you’re enjoying like this. I feel that’s essentially the most thrilling factor and makes us such a harmful staff to play in opposition to.

“It would be really exciting to try and do it in different conditions and see where we go this winter, where we go abroad onto different surfaces in different parts of the world.”

Root was changed by Stokes as check captain however he nonetheless desires to assist mentor the youthful gamers within the aspect.

“I’m really excited just to get my teeth into trying to score as many runs as I can for Ben and the team and see where we can get to as a side,” he added.

“As an experienced player in the team I’ve still got a role in leading in a different capacity, helping with some of the younger batters and younger guys and hopefully that will benefit us as well.”