'A lost opportunity': Edwards reflects on the 2025/26 Ashes
22.03.26, 09:00 Updated 23.03.26, 10:36 9 Minute Read
Paul Edwards
Let us begin with two shots, each of them played by an England batsman to the opening ball of a day’s play in the same Ashes Test match. Taken together, they seem to me to encapsulate the strategy that has come to be known as Bazball.
In 2023, Zak Crawley cover-drove Pat Cummins’ first delivery of the series for four. The ball was over-pitched and just wide enough of the off stump to allow Crawley to lean into one of his favourite strokes. In the Edgbaston press box, journalists uttered a collective gasp of anticipation.
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