Ravichandran Ashwin, the former Indian cricketer, thinks England will play Jasprit Bumrah carefully but attack India’s other bowlers in the Test series. That’s Bazball.
According to Wisden.com, Ashwin said, It’s not just about how many overs Jasprit Bumrah bowls. It’s about maintaining pressure when Bumrah isn’t bowling. The game plan is simple: play Bumrah cautiously and aggressively target everyone else. I think that’s what England will do.
India lost the Leeds Test despite five of their batters scoring centuries. Before this, a team had only lost a Test once after four batters scored hundreds. That was Australia against England in Melbourne (1928). The second Test starts on Wednesday.
England’s chase of 371 against India in the first Test is now their second-highest successful chase in Test history.
Ashwin suggested India’s bowling unit should play some defensive cricket. Given the wickets England creates, we should play defensively and tell our bowlers to focus on containing the batters, he added.
Ashwin believes the idea of always ‘going for wickets’ in Test or T20 cricket is false. He thinks pressure leads to wickets. The whole idea of ‘going for wickets’ in Test or T20 cricket isn’t true. Wickets come from pressure. When a bowler keeps a batter at bay for 10 balls and then bowls a good one, that’s rhythm.
You have to pressure the batters by not giving runs, trapping them and testing their technique. So, if India wants to win the second Test, they should play Bumrah, plus Kuldeep Yadav and ensure the other bowlers keep the pressure on at one end, Ashwin added.
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England needed 350 runs to win the match and did so in 82 overs. They lead the five-match Test series 1-0.
India, led by Shubman Gill, will face Ben Stokes’s England in the second match of the five-match Test series (Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy) at Edgbaston in Birmingham, starting Wednesday.
