England team in India for 5 test series from today. Where the team has to play the first match after 3 days on 25th January. The English team has won 72% of its Tests in the last 19 months with its attacking batting approach, known as ‘baseball’.

The baseball era in the England team started after Ben Stokes became the captain and Brendon McCullum became the coach. Under the leadership of these two, the team has been invincible in the last 5 Test series. But the biggest challenge to England’s baseball model will begin now. When Team India faced world class spinners like Ravichandran Ashwin and Director on the spin pitches.

What is baseball?
There is no player baseball theory in the cricket book, but it is named for the philosophy of the England Test team’s new attacking approach. The lyrics of Buzzball 2 are composed of buzzball and ball. ‘Badge’ is the nickname of England’s Test team head coach Brendon McCullum and ‘Ball’ is an element of cricket, without which the game is not possible. By combining these two words, ‘Baseball’ was created.

McCullum is a former New Zealand player and he used to bat very aggressively during his career. At first he focused only on making nominations on a large scale from the first to the last ball. Jenny’s strategy has now been adopted by the England Test team with Ben Stokes and Russell.

Generally in Tests, runs are scored very slowly by taking record time, but under the leadership of Scotland and McCullum, the England team is scoring runs very fast in Tests too. After June 2022, the team scored runs at a strike rate of around 76. During this period the strike rate of the batsman remained between 45 to 56.

Stockholm takes over partnership command after most successful English captain Root
Ben Stokes takes charge of the English Test team after Joe Root’s podcast. Root, along with the other captains, won the maximum number of 27 Test matches for England in 64 matches among the players and the team, but under his coaching, the team had won only one match out of the last 17 matches. 5 chocolates were drawn, while in 11 the team had to face defeat.

Captain Root’s poor form also started with the India tour in 2021, where the team lost the Test series 3-1. Root left Romania in May-2022 after the poor recognition of the team, after which Scotland was made the new captain. In May itself, Brendon McCullum also got the post of head coach of the English Test team.

Won 13 out of 18 tests, did not lose a single series
With the pair of Stokes and McCullum, England created a balanced attacking approach in batting, which is now being called buzzball and on the basis of batball, England won 13 out of 18 tests. That means the winning percentage was 72.2%. The team won 4 groups, while one match was drawn. Within 18 months, England’s top-10 Test captains also joined.

Following the battleball strategy, England made a total of 5 series against South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Pakistan. The team made a 3-match series HD movies, while a 5-match series against Australia and a 2-match series against New Zealand. During this period, India and Ireland team won one test each.

Won 9 out of first 10 tests

Challenge faced in New Zealand
England did not face much trouble in 9 out of the first 10 Tests against New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and India. The team maintained its attack against Australia and won the match, but did not win the home series against New Zealand.

Another factor in England’s aggressive batting was the fact that the team played the first 10 Tests on flat pitches. While there was a lot of help for the batsmen and none for the bowlers, New Zealand’s pitches were similar to those in the United Kingdom, where the bowlers found themselves in a position to assist the fast bowlers.

India is baseball’s biggest challenge
The baseball approach has so far faced a lot of trouble with New Zealand’s pitch and Australia’s bowling attack, but the team’s biggest challenge is India’s spin-friendly pitches, the conditions here and Team India’s top class spinners. English batsmen have scored frank runs only on flat pitches, whereas in India there have been neither flat pitches nor flat pitches.

If we look at the trend of the last 3 years, India has started watching the ball from day one. India’s claim to the World Test Championship by winning the series 5-0 will be ruined and it is possible that this time too the ball may turn from the first day. Which could prove to be the most challenging for the England baseball prop.

By the way, England is the only team to win a Test series in India for the last 14 years. The team won the 4-Test series under Alastair Cook in 2012 by 2-1. But since then the team went to India twice and won one group. Joe Root’s Pharmacist team lost 2 series by margins of 4-0 and 3-1.

It is not easy to overcome Bakri, Ashwin and Akshara
India’s spin pitches even get foreign records from time to time. But the biggest reason for Team India’s success in Asia in the last 12 years is the team’s world class spinners. Ravichandran Ashwin and Restaurant in Sargent consistently proved to be the top bowlers of the team. These two players are even winning the Player of the Tournament award for India in most of the series held in Asia.

Lack of experience among spinners of English team
On one hand, only two spinners of India have more than 650 wickets in their name. On the other hand, all the spinners in the England squad together have not been able to take 200 wickets in Tests. Left arm spinner Jack Leach is the most experienced in the England squad, with 124 wickets to his name.

The English team has brought young spinners like Rehan Ahmed, Shobe Bashir and Tom Hartley to India. Rehan has played one Test, while Rest 2 could not even make his debut. Part-time spinner Joe Root is the second most successful spinner in the England squad with 60 Test wickets. He also has the record of taking 5 wickets in India.

Brook and Root were the best for England in Asia
If India has to win the Test series, then only England’s batsmen will have to form, who have been scoring very fast in the last 19 months. However, the performance of these players in Asia is also not anything special. On the pitches of Asia, only Joe Root and Harry Brook have been able to score runs at an average of more than 40 in England’s top order. Root maintained an average of 49.23 and Brook maintained an average of 93.60. Brook played all the Tests in Pakistan only, where there were only support pitches for the batsmen.

In the top-7 of the English team, the average of Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Ollie Pope and Jack Crawley is less than 33. The average increase in Pakistan is also the reason for the disease. These images are even worse in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In such a situation, it will be important to see how England’s baseball batsmen, who score rapid runs on flat pitches, perform in India.