{"id":670440,"date":"2026-07-02T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670440\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T20:32:09","slug":"rip-again-to-the-remains-of-bazball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670440\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, again, to the remains of Bazball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">England didn\u2019t play Bazball throughout the three-Test series against New Zealand. Ben Duckett, for example, shifted his game closer to conventional red-ball discipline. But in the mayhem of Stokes\u2019s retirement announcement, at the least appropriate moment imaginable (at 3.25pm, on day four of a five-day contest), England regressed not into a tactical aberration so much as a conceit: the discredited see-it-hit-it, zero-consequence anti-thinking that was supposed to have been buried in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England didn\u2019t play Bazball throughout the three-Test series against New Zealand. Ben Duckett, for example, shifted his game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,224438,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sport-comment","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}