Despite job saved, McCullum faces scrutiny on damning allegations over England’s culture - Yes Punjab News Brendon McCullum faces scrutiny over England’s Ashes culture, discipline and leadership after a damaging review.

Despite job saved, McCullum faces scrutiny on damning allegations over England’s culture yespunjab.com?p=231343

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English cricket remains a metaphor for the country as travelling circus rolls on | Jonathan Liew As Brendon McCullum and Rob Key limp on, perhaps it is worth retracing the steps that brought us here

"English cricket remains a metaphor for the country at large: hollowed out and stripped down, a place of VIP queues and boarded-up high streets. A place where people are slowly tuning out, living paycheck to paycheck, bored of experts" #Bazball
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Woakes on Bazball: 'We shouldn't discard our successful approach'

He emphasizes the importance of building on their achievements from the past three years.

#Bazball #ChrisWoakes #CricketStrategy

England's aggressive style meets its match in another disappointing Ashes series

Despite high hopes, England struggled and had to rethink their approach during the latest Ashes clash in Australia

#Ashes2025 #Bazball #Cricket

Beyond Bazball: What the Ashes defeat tells us about class in Britain | idrottsforum.org - forumbloggen English crowd celebrate England’s play at the third test match of the 2010 Ashes series at the WACA (Western Australian Cricket Association) December 17, 2010 in Perth, Australia. (Shutterstock/Lesley...

Thanks to the Scandinavian #Sport Studies Forum for picking up my ‘autopsy’ of the #Ashes #Bazball debacle.

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Sack the vibe: goodbye Bazball and hello England’s search for a cricketing soul | Barney Ronay There have to be consequences for Rob Key and Brendon McCullum but English cricket’s problems lie much deeper and will be much harder to fix

"Rob Key looks most vulnerable. Managing directors have to actually manage and direct. Too many details have been glossed. England’s Test, white-ball, Lions and Under-19 teams are all underachieving in a fug of cliquishness and blurred lines" Vale #BazBall #Ashes
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So much wasted talent in that team, and so much cult like belief that they could change test cricket. I hope that is now been put to bed. RIP #bazball

Play without consequence is such s stupid mantra.

#bazball there is only #bazball

Stokes has his ‘whites’ on but doesn’t seem to have padded up. I have no doubt he’ll bat when needed but #bazball has well and truely (and rightly) died in this match as England try to grind out a draw. It’ll be a good test for the English batters to hold on.

#Ashes

Nipped into the kitchen to make a sandwich and Webster gets another! The #BazBall banana 🍌 Will Jacks!

#Ashes #AUSvENG

Bethel seems to be untainted by McCullums insane #BazBall theory.

#Ashes #AUSvENG

#ashes completely sick of #Bazball
Get rid of McCullum and Stokes.

As a complete neutral, is it time for regime change in English cricket? I don't think Stokes has won an #Ashes series, and definitely won't. #Bazball doesn't really work especially against the current top sides, and we're about halfway to a world cup.

#testmatch just seen Smith's shots I thought #Bazball was dead and burried but that was really, really abismal and probably the worst Iv'e seen anywhere?

Proper batting versus the idiocy of #BazBall

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 batting like England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ☹️ #ashes #bazball

Predictably #BazBall claims Duckett again and Mitchell Starcs 27th wicket of the series.
#Ashes #AUSvENG

They dish up thrilling sessions of play in matches they ultimately toss away…again and again and again…and seem impervious to it. It used to be enthralling and worth jumping on for the ride, but now it’s like ‘Oh, are these dicks batting like dicks again? Whatever 🤦🏻‍♂️’ #Cricket #Ashes #Bazball

‘Finished’ 2025 with a blog which was not untypical.

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#genocide #Netanyahu #Trump #Starmer (#angerisanenergy)
#ManchesterUnited #Amorim #PremierLeague
#Eng #Aus #Ashes #Bazball

Oh oh. Kindof end-of-year thing.
This can only mean the universe floods in. All of it. 😬

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#football #cricket #Netanyahu 👀

#ManchesterUnited #PremierLeague
#Eng #Aus #Ashes #Bazball 🏏
#Trump #Starmer 🤬

Took on #United #Eng & #Trump in the latest on bowlingatvincent.com

Beat them all.

#ManchesterUnited #PremierLeague
#Aus #Ashes #Bazball
#Netanyahu #genocide

a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is pointing his finger at the camera . ALT: a man wearing a hat and sunglasses is pointing his finger at the camera .

The #Ashes defeat is not a failure of #Bazball, but the culture of English #cricket that led to it.

As #ICEC briefly achieved, the conversation as to why we in the UK are increasingly uncompetitive (and unimaginative) needs to be widened:

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Ashes 2025/26 4th Test Match Review Review of the 4th Ashes Test Match of 2025/26 at Melbourne as England win their first test match on Australian soil since Sydney 2011.

England win in Australia for the first time in 15 years!
#Ashes #Ashes2025 #Bazball
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Understand this game has been dedicated to the writer of @theshovel.bsky.social #Ashes #Bazball obituary

Hope they don't sack Key, Baz & Ben, we never would 've won this test without that approach. Still will have those 4 250+ chases in 2022. It's #BazBall only when YJB plays, else it's just ultra positive cricket. 😃 #Ashes

Of course, if England don't cock this up - and that's not entirely out of the question - they will carry on like they've not only won #TheAshes, but the FIFA World Cup, Sydney-To-Hobart, and the W.S.Cox Plate.
And crow over the innate brilliance of #Bazball.
Sorry fellas, that horse has bolted.

Not #BazBall

So now we are back to #bazball #Ashes #cricket #Ashes2025

Jonathan Trott is way better as a coach right now in world cricket. Appoint him as coach of English test team.

English Test team is an overrated team - achieving nothing in Test cricket except hype, PR and boasting. All noise no Substance sums up #Bazball .

#Ashes with Eng going down as 5-0.

Geoffrey Boycott proposes ‘two strong candidates’ to replace Brendon McCullum as England’s Test coach after Ashes 2025-26 defeat Geoffrey Boycott backed two names as possible successors to Brendon McCullum for England’s Test coach role. England suffered a devastating 3-0 Ashes series defeat that saw Australia retain the urn in just 11 days of play.

Geoffrey Boycott backed two names as possible successors to Brendon McCullum for England’s Test coach role.
#Ashes #Bazball #BrendonMccullum #Coach #England