Tim Paine backs Australia to cease England’s Bazball in Ashes: Australia have gotten the sting

By India Today Sports Desk: Former Australia Test captain Tim Paine has backed the vacationers, underneath Pat Cummins, to cease Bazball and dominate England within the upcoming 5-Test Ashes collection. England and Australia will meet in one of many most-anticipated Ashes collection when the collection opener will get underway at Edgbaston, Birmingham on June 16.

England have achieved loads of success with the Bazball strategy underneath captain Ben Stokes and head coach Brendon McCullum. A extra constructive and fearless strategy, by which roles are effectively outlined for each batters and bowlers, has introduced unbelievable success to the England Test facet — 11 wins out of their final 13 Tests.

However, Tim Paine feels the personnel within the Stokes-led facet will not be very completely different from the one who had been humbled 4-0 in Australia in 2021 and that the stress of enjoying within the Ashes would possibly see the Bazball concept failing.

“I still think if the Aussies get it right and play their best cricket, I think it (Bazball) can come unstuck pretty quickly for England,” Paint advised The Sydney Morning Herald.

“I do think Australia have got the edge. I think whilst England are playing a different brand of cricket, and they’re confident about it, to me the team looks pretty similar to what we saw in Australia last year.

“So there are some guys there that yeah, they’ve had a superb 12 months, however the Ashes depth and the scrutiny goes up 100 per cent. It solely takes a nick or a few lbws and I believe a few of these guys would possibly begin doubting themselves once more,” he added.

England were held to a 2-2 draw the last time Australia were in the Old Blighty for the Ashes. However, Australia kept the Urn after hammering England 4-0 in 2021 Down Under.

In fact, the one-sided Ashes defeat brought about a sea of changes in the England Test side as Joe Root stepped down as captain and Chris Silverwood’s tenure as head coach came to an end.

‘DO AUSTRALIA SET DEFENSIVE FIELDS?’

Australia are heading into the Ashes series on the back of winning the World Test Championship final against India and quite of their stars, including Steve Smith, have spoken about how England might struggle to Bazball them.

However, Stokes has remained confident that their approach will not change in the Ashes. The England all-rounder said on the eve of the first Test that England will continue to play their aggressive brand of cricket against Australia.

Paine said it would be interesting to see how Pat Cummins would deal with the proceedings if England manage to get off to fast starts with the ball.

“It might be fascinating to see how the Aussies go about it. Do you set actually defensive fields as a result of they’ve proven that they’ll come out to attain actually shortly? Keep your catchers up and drops some blokes out on the fence and see if England wish to park their ego, or they’re going to maintain attempting to go laborious?” Paine mentioned.

England named the enjoying XI 2 days within the lead-up to the primary Test whereas Pat Cummins mentioned Australia will identify their XI solely on the toss on Friday.

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