Bazball has had its soul ripped out and been exposed as a flippant, disrespectful, unserious attitude to cricket, writes OLIVER HOLT - here's who should stay (and who should go) after Adelaide humilia
Even by the start of the Third Test, it was clear that Bazball had lost its nerve and that Stokes wanted it to evolve. Some saw it as a blueprint for irresponsibility, a puerile, flippant, disrespectful, unserious attitude to a serious game. Many had come to hate it because Bazball wanted to change a game that Bazball's detractors did not want to change. And if someone has to carry the can for this Ashes debacle, it is best that it should be him. Yes, Bazball has been defrocked in this brutal Ashes series.
Source: Daily Mail December 21, 2025 16:21 UTC
