Sunil Gavaskar criticizes England’s Brumbrella fielding in the Edgbaston Test. ‘If these same fielders had been five to ten paces back in their typical fielding positions. England could have easily pouched the few missed opportunities,’ Gavaskar remarked.
Sunil Gavaskar, a former India cricketer, criticised England’s unusual fielding strategy during the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Notably, Ben Stokes’ England barely lost the first Test, giving Australia a 1-0 lead in the five-match series.
From declaring on the opening day to skipper Stokes utilizing a novel fielding strategy during Australia’s batting innings, viewers watched a slew of exciting actions by the Three Lions.
England used a novel umbrella-like structure on the field to eliminate Usman Khawaja on Day 3 of the first Test. Stokes dub ‘Brumbrella’ for the unusual field configuration. However, India legend Sunil Gavaskar not please with the plan. Claiming that such a setup was for ‘television’ and not for catching a wicket.
“The Ashes series in England appears to have piqued the interest of the cricketing public there. ” England is batting with unprecedent freedom, and more strokes. Both conventional and unconventional, are being played under the leadership of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum than ever before. That’s where Bazball stops,” Gavaskar wrote in his recent essay for ‘Mid-Day’.
“The Ashes series in England appears to have piqued the interest of the cricketing public there.” England is batting with unprecedented freedom. More strokes, both conventional and unconventional, are being play under the leadership of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum than ever before. That’s where Bazball stops,” Gavaskar wrote in his recent essay for ‘Mid-Day’.
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England may have easily pouched catches in regular positions: Gavaskar
Notably, England missed a number of chances during the game, which Gavaskar believes the team might have easily won if they had been in their typical positions.
“If anything, England’s few missed opportunities could have been easily capitalized. If these same fielders had been five to ten paces back in their normal fielding positions. ” “Being so close to the action, the fielders had very little time to react to those hard, but uppish pulls, and thus could barely get their hands to the catches,” he continued.
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