Geoffrey Boycott slams England batters as ‘Brainless Bazballers’ after Pakistan series loss
Former player Geoffrey Boycott has labeled England batters as ‘Brainless Bazballers’ after the Test series defeat against Pakistan.
In a column for the Telegraph, Boycott highlighted the players’ inability to play spin well on turning tracks.
Boycott wrote that Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes have failed to learn from their mistakes, and the batters only enjoy batting on flat tracks. According to him, England’s brainless Bazballers are just flat-track bullies, and the current team will not go down as great in history if the players don’t perform on all kinds of surfaces.
*If you want to be remembered as a batter, you need runs on all the surfaces. And if you want to leave a legacy as a great team, you will have to win matches everywhere,” Boycott wrote in his column in The Telegraph.
“They are wasting chances and will be remembered as flat-track bullies unless they play better cricket in different conditions,” he further wrote.
England won the first Test by an innings and 47 runs but suffered a 152-run defeat in the second. The visitors were clueless in the third and final match as Pakistan defeated them by 9 wickets.
“Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope, Harry Brook and Stokes have problems against the balls that spin a bit. They don’t play the ball with soft hands and end up leaving a gap between bat and pad. If they don’t get boundaries, they lose patience.”
England will face New Zealand in a three-match Test series in December.
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