England will lock horns with India England in a five-match Test series in India in early 2024. England have announced a 16-member squad for the forthcoming series on Monday.
However, former England captain Michael Vaughan has sent a stern warning to head coach Brendon McCullum and his boys by saying that Bazball could get ‘absolutely destroyed’ in the much-anticipated India Test series.
England’s Bazball strategy has really worked for them in Test cricket over the last 18 months. With this aggressive strategy, the team has won 13 of their 18 Tests since the appointment of McCullum at the helm of the affairs.
However, Vaughan feels that this kind of approach by England will fall short against the likes of world-class spinners in Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja.
“Ultimately the hardest place to play in the world is India and if you actually go back to the Ashes when Nathan Lyon was fit and bowling nicely, Australia were 2-0 up in the series,” said Vaughan during an interaction.
“Now that’s just one spinner, if you look at that five-for he got at Edgbaston and the field was spread and England got out to him by playing ridiculous shots at times. If you add in Ashwin, Jadeja and Axar Patel on spinning wickets in India, they may get blown away, they may get absolutely destroyed. They will go out and play exactly the same way, we’ve already spoken about the impact they are going to try and achieve in India with the way they play. It will be great watching, but you will have to fancy three quality spinners might do a job on England when one quality spinner in Nathan Lyon did the job in English conditions. It’s going to be very tough for them to win in India,” the former batting great added.