God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[ElwoodBlues1]

Admittedly I haven’t watched much of this test.
From what I’ve seen bazball isn’t reinventing the wheel.
Look back to the great windies sides of the 80’s, the Waugh, Ponting teams, India of the same era… they all looked to score quickly and give their bowlers a target that allowed them to bowl to attacking fields.
Some of the bazball fields were pretty unconventional and with two geriatric fast bowlers short spells are the norm but I’m not really seeing the revolution.

Never seen the Bumbrella field before which is limited behind the wicket fielders but a umbrella arc in front of the batsman with everything pitched up on a driving length trying to get him to lift the ball over the field to score.
The Windies teams played with good technique...eg Greenidge and Haynes were very correct and played authentic shots, no weird fields either.....everyone behind the wicket bar a cover, silly mid on and fine leg or deep square leg. England are trying to bring one day cricket to Test cricket and instead of reinventing the wheel found themselves under it which is what they deserved for trying to be too smart for their own good.
The English fields will only get more weird when they bring the express Wood into the team, I watched Pak vs Eng and Stokes had Anderson bowling 6 bouncers an over at one stage with crazy fields.
The funny thing is we struggle to beat England at home and havent won a series there for ages and thats with them having played normal test cricket because they green the wickets up and have Broad and crew seaming it sideways but Bazball has actually given us a better chance to win a series there.