{"id":660354,"date":"2024-02-21T00:44:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T04:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=660354"},"modified":"2024-02-21T00:44:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T04:44:44","slug":"former-captain-furious-at-englands-baseball-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/660354\/","title":{"rendered":"Former captain furious at England&#8217;s &#8216;baseball&#8217; style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-660355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/cricket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"796\" height=\"446\" \/>Former England captains Nasser Hussain and Michael Vaughan have criticized England&#8217;s &#8216;baseball&#8217; style in the Test series against India, saying that the team needs to play according to the situation of the match instead of always having a strategy of playing aggressively.Michael &#8220;It was the worst defeat under the leadership of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum and it exposed their tactics,&#8221; Vaughan wrote in his column in the Telegraph.\u00a0<\/span><span>They cannot be aggressive at every opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><span>They need to see how Yashasvi and Shubman Gill performed on the third day. Vaughan further wrote, &#8220;They bore the pressure for 30 or 40 balls and then they started hitting boundaries.\u00a0<\/span><span>This is what test batting is all about.\u00a0<\/span><span>No one can tell me that watching India bat here was boring.\u00a0<\/span><span>Certainly such a heavy defeat is a warning to Ben Stokes and his players. Hussain said, &#8220;Baseball is about being aggressive, but it is also about withstanding pressure.\u00a0<\/span><span>The England team batted only aggressively.\u00a0<\/span><span>Ashwin was not there, India was one bowler less.\u00a0<\/span><span>But our batsmen did not play according to the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former England captains Nasser Hussain and Michael Vaughan have criticized England&#8217;s &#8216;baseball&#8217; style in the Test series against India, saying that the team needs to play according to the situation of the match instead of always having a strategy of playing aggressively.Michael &#8220;It was the worst defeat under the leadership of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum and it exposed their tactics,&#8221; Vaughan wrote in his column in the Telegraph.\u00a0They cannot be aggressive at every opportunity.\u00a0They need to see how Yashasvi and Shubman Gill performed on the third day. Vaughan further&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":660355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660356,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660354\/revisions\/660356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}