{"id":207232,"date":"2025-10-12T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207232\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:32:08","slug":"zak-crawley-says-bazball-winds-up-australia-before-ashes-series-says-england-not-the-ones-talking-about-moral-victory-feud-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207232\/","title":{"rendered":"Zak Crawley says Bazball winds up Australia before Ashes series, says England not the ones talking about moral victory, feud, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"

England opener Zak Crawley has declared Bazball \u201cwinds up\u201d Australia while claiming their Ashes rivals are the ones who keep talking about a \u201cmoral\u201d victory.<\/p>\n

This summer\u2019s series will be the first since the controversial 2-2 tie in England two years ago, headlined by the Jonny Bairstow stumping incident at Lord\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crawley declared in The Times<\/a> his team had shown India they\u2019re \u201cnot just nice guys\u201d any more and they would need to repeat that in Australia.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBazball really winds them up, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d Crawley declared.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich is great. If they get wound up, then that\u2019s better for us.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll that stuff after the last series, talking about \u2018the moral Ashes\u2019 after what happened with Jonny Bairstow, that was just a consequence of us drawing the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my eyes, if they\u2019d won, they would never have said it, so it\u2019s a compliment that they felt the need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawley\u2019s comments are confusing given the English were the ones who first talked about a \u201cmoral victory\u201d in the 2023 series.<\/p>\n

Leading into the fifth Test, his teammate Harry Brook declared: \u201cWe were dominating the game last week weren\u2019t we? So if the game had played out, I would like to think we would have won that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo if we can win this week, it almost can make it a moral victory.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawley himself declared to the press a 2-2 result \u201cwould be fair\u201d.<\/p>\n

Australians have made fun of the English for their strange comments ever since.<\/p>\n

The Grade Cricketer jokingly asked<\/a> Mitch Marsh how it felt having \u201clost the Ashes, morally\u201d, to which he replied: \u201cYeah, I think any time you lose an Ashes series 5-0, it\u2019s always tough to take.<\/p>\n

\u201cThem being the greatest side to ever play Test cricket, 5-0 was probably fair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pat Cummins quipped: \u201cIt was a thumping, morally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zak Crawley of England batting during Day Three of the LV= Insurance Ashes 5th Test Match between England and Australia at The Kia Oval on July 29, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Ryan Pierse\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n

The English have claimed their poor behaviour against India<\/a> was an example of the attitude they\u2019ll bring to the Ashes this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cJonny Bairstow always said, \u2018You\u2019ve got to stick your chest out against Australia\u2019. And I think he\u2019s right, even if that\u2019s not your personality, you\u2019ve got to show them,\u201d Crawley said. \u201cThey\u2019re very competitive, they\u2019re very good at cricket, and they\u2019re in your face and want to get on top of you.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s important to stand up for yourself and I feel like we showed in the India series we\u2019re not just nice guys who are going to roll over. That\u2019ll be important in Australia, to front up at times. And I like that side of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England opener Zak Crawley has declared Bazball \u201cwinds up\u201d Australia while claiming their Ashes rivals are the ones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-207232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}