India’s batting sensation Yashasvi Jaiswal has reacted to the comments made on him by Ben Duckett. Talking about the youngster’s aggressive batting during England’s recent five-match Test series against India, Duckett asserted that Jaiswal played in that style of cricket as a result of England’s much-discussed Bazball approach in the game’s purest form. Duckett remarked that England deserve “some credit” for the way Jaiswal adopted an attacking brand of cricket in Tests.
“When you see players from the opposition playing like that, it almost feels like we should take some credit that they’re playing differently than how other people play Test cricket,” Duckett had said while commenting on Jaiswal’s batting at the end of play on Day 3 in Rajkot Test.
When asked to comment on it, Jaiswal refrained from speaking much on the topic.
“I don’t want to say anything about it. I just need to try and do whatever I can do on the ground that says the best I can do,” Jaiswal told The Indian Express.
Jaiswal’s attacking approach yielded runs in tons for him and he bagged the Player of the Series award. He scored 712 runs across five matches.
Meanwhile, 29-year-old England batter Deckett faced plenty of backlash for his comment.
The opening batsman’s opinion did not sit well with ex-England captain Hussain, who chastised Duckett for his statements and urged England players to “self-reflect” when it comes to supporting ‘Bazball’.
“He’s not learnt from you. He’s learnt from his upbringing, all the hard yards he had to put in growing up. If anything, lads, look at him and learn from him. I hope there’s a little bit of self-introspection going on. Otherwise it becomes a cult – and, at times, Bazball and this regime has been described as such, where you cannot criticise within or externally,” Hussain told Sky Sports.
