India’s residence supremacy weathered the ‘Bazball’ storm as Rohit Sharma‘s males secured a hard-fought five-wicket win over England within the fourth and penultimate Test for a seventeenth consecutive collection triumph in their very own yard on Monday, handing a harsh actuality verify to the guests’ unidimensional method. Following the victory, former India captain and spin legend Anil Kumble slammed Bazball and acknowledged that it’s by no means going to be straightforward to beat India at residence. The time period ‘Bazball’ is derived from ‘Baz’, the nickname of Brendon McCullum, who’s the top coach of England’s Test workforce since May 2022.

Bazball is related to England’s drastic change in method in taking part in the longest format of the sport for the reason that arrival of McCullum within the function.

“See the challenge when England came here was obvious. India is not going to easy. Bazball, whatever ball you call it… but it’s not going to be easy beating India at home. That is the reason why India has been so dominant over the years. Last decade, India have never lost a series at home. They knew they had to be different but their bowling attack wasn’t certainly something that they believed would be able to penetrate the Indian batting,” stated Kumble to JioCinema as quoted by Sportskeeda.

“Once they got to know that some of the senior players won’t be available, with an inexperienced line-up, they had a chance, but senior batters didn’t contribute consistently in that middle order, including Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow and even Joe Root – apart from this Test match, in order that’s the place I assumed they missed a trick there,” added Kumble.

England’s plan to assault no matter circumstances discovered its match within the unflappable method of the Indians.

While the guests remained cussed barring the conservative hundred by veteran Joe Root in Ranchi Test, the Indians tailored and refused to be slowed down by setbacks.

The end result, England could be going again with their first collection defeat below Stokes and McCullum. It can also be the primary time they’ve misplaced three back-to-back Tests.

(With PTI Inputs)