Former skipper Michael Vaughan has issued a warning to ahead of the upcoming five-Test series in , saying their Bazball approach may get "absolutely destroyed" against the lethal spin attack of the hosts. (Cricket News)
England's aggressive approach, termed as Bazball named after 🌠their head coach , has created a lot of buzz in the cricketing world in the last one and a half years with the team winning 13 of their last 18 red-ball games.
But Vaughan pointed out how England ﷺstruggled against Australian spinner 🌼Nathan Lyon during the Ashes and said the strategy may not work in India.
"Ultimately the hardest place to play in the world is India and if you actually go back to the Ashes when ✨Nathan Lyon was fit and bowling nicely, Australia were 2-0 up in the series," Vaughan told foxsports.com.au.
"That was just one innings and a few overs in the first innings at Lords… Nathan came out with a lovely line the other🔯 week where✃ he said he’s 2-nil up against Bazball.
"Now that’s just one spin🐻ner, if you look at that five-for he got at Edgbas𝄹ton and the field was spread and England got out to him by playing ridiculous shots at times."
England will play five Tests in India as part of t🐟heir ICC World Test Championships cycle starting on January 25 in Hyderabad.
"If you add in Ashwin, Jadeja and Axar Patel on spinning wickets in India, they may get blown away, tℱhey may get absolutely destroyed.
"They will go out an𒀰d play exactly the same way, we’ve already spoken about the imp💎act they are going to try and achieve in India with the way they play.
"It will🎉 be great watching, but you will have to fancy three quali꧑ty spinners might do a job on England when one quality spinner in Nathan Lyon did the job in English conditions. It’s going to be very tough for them to win in India."
England on Monday named four specialist spinners -- Jack Leach, teenage leg-spinner Rehan Ahm🔜ed and uncapped duo of Tom Hartley and Shoaib Bashir, in the 16-member squad for the Test series in India.
After Hyderabad, England will play th🦩e rest four Tes𒆙ts in Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Ranchi and Dharamsala respectively.
