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Bazball ends with a whimper to expose emptiness of English men’s cricket | Jonathan Liew

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Bazball ends with a whimper to expose emptiness of English men’s cricket | Jonathan Liew
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Trent Bridge was not just the end of Ben Stokes’ international career, it was further confirmation that the Bazball project stood for nothingBy the very end, Trent Bridge was practically empty. This felt bleakly appropriate. If the age of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum lived by re-engaging a sceptical public, winning big series, doing the unprecedented and elevating Test cricket above its three-an-over purgatory, then this was exactly how it had to die: the first England team in history to lose

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