Absolutely

To avoid accusations of a pile-on, I accept a lot of people are disappointed with the results we’ve had. Paul isn’t wrong about everything. I just wish that no one had ever coined the phrase Bazball; it’s become a stick for the media to beat the team with when they can’t live up to the absurd expectations they’ve put on them. Ex-players who would rather things were as they were in their day also being a case in point: Cook, Prior, Finn and others were lucky to play in a generational team, which coincided with a slight weakening elsewhere (Warne, Tendulkar’s careers coming to an end etc), and became world number 1. Doesn’t happen that often.

Posted By: APB, Jan 8, 13:02:09