England received quite a few followers with their ‘Bazball’ strategy to cricket but it surely was not sufficient towards Australia as they had been overwhelmed by two wickets within the first Ashes Test in Edgbaston. Even the choice by England skipper Ben Stokes to declare the primary innings in direction of the tip of Day 1 was met with a variety of criticism. Former Pakistan cricketer Salman Butt stated that it was ‘conceited’ of England to declare the innings early and that got here again to hang-out them within the Edgbaston Test.

“You have to adapt according to the situation. There are no guarantees that all of your batters will score in every match just because you have batting depth. If you’re set, you have to score big. You can’t rely on others to make up for the failure. Everyone is aggressive in this England team, some are even overly-aggressive. A batsman is playing on 130, he’s set, you have 10-odd overs, you’re on 393, have a chance to add 50-60 runs more, so why did you declare?” Butt stated on his official YouTube channel.

Butt additionally expressed his views on ‘Bazball’ and made it clear that England mustn’t underestimate Australia at any level of the continuing Ashes Test sequence.

“It didn’t make sense. You have a five-day Test. They thought they will dismiss Australia early. I think they underestimated the opponents, it was an arrogant declaration. Australia aren’t walkovers. In Pakistan, our bowlers were inexperienced. Even if it was our best bowling, even they didn’t have that much of experience in Tests. We had three debutants in bowling attack, our emphasis had been on shorter formats. On the other hand, Australia are Test champions, they prefer Test cricket. They are ready to leave IPL for Tests. You can’t take that team lightly,” he additional stated.