England have just fallen behind 2-1 in their ongoing five-match Test series against India, after a 434-run hammering they received at Rajkot.
England did not just lose the Test match, but they lost it by a heavy margin. The 434-run loss was India's largest Test victory in terms of margin of runs.
Young India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored a terrific double century - his second of the series - which pretty much put the game out of England's reach. The Indian opener hammered an unbeaten 214-run knock in just 236 deliveries, striking at 90.67.
Interestingly, England opener Ben Duckett made a weird claim about Yashasvi Jaiswal's style of play in the ongoing Test series. He claimed that Jaiswal's aggressive knock came about because of the way England play their cricket and said his team should be credited for the way India, and Jaiswal, batted.
England and their new Bazball approach has certainly changed the dynamics of the red-ball cricket. Under Brendon McCullum's leadership, the England Test team have played a very aggressive brand of cricket, no matter where they have visited.
But former England International Nasser Hussain had some things to say about Duckett's flabbergasting claim on Jaiswal's batting approach in the Rajkot Test.
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What did Nasser Hussain say on Ben Duckett's claim of "Bazball" inspired Yashasvi Jaiswal?
Hussain slammed Duckett while mounting a passionate defence of the 22-year-old. Speaking to SkySportsCricket, Hussain said that it was disrespectful to suggest Jaiswal's batting was inspired by Bazball.
He's not learnt from you. He has learnt from his upbringing, and all the hard yards, that he had to put in growing up. He has also learnt from the IPL
He also asked the England players to get inspired from Yashasvi Jaiswal, rather than making irrelevant public claims.
If anything lads, have a look at him, and learn from him. I hope they are self-introspecting in the dressing room, no matter what they are saying in public. I hope they feel they can improve, Hussain expressed on SkySportsCricket.
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What did Ben Duckett say on Yashasvi Jaiswal?
Ben Duckett believed that opposition players have taken the blueprint from England Test team's 'Bazball' formula. More and more opposition players have resorted to aggression in the red-ball format. Duckett claimed that England should be given 'a certain amount of credit' for that.
When you see players from the opposition playing like that, it almost feels like we should take some credit that they’re playing differently than how other people play Test cricket, Duckett said.
We saw it a bit in the summer and it’s quite exciting to see other players and other teams are also playing that aggressive style of cricket, added the English opener.
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