This is the Friends of History Debating Society, my cricket coach and guide, Jeremy Zuckus, is going to take me into the extremely fast-paced world of opinion in cricket.

When last we spoke of

Basball it was reverentially. Perhaps it's not for everybody, perhaps it's just

for T-20s and not for not for five-day tests, but it did have credibility.

What's happened to Basball Jeremy?

Well, John, it seems

Basball has actually failed. It doesn't seem to work as well as everybody

advertised. Well I say everybody was really just the Brits. It was only the

British teams that seem to think this thing would work. And now let me just take it back to what

Bazball was. Bazball was basically the theory that if you played a really

hard and fast game of cricket, almost like running at sprint speed the entire

series. So for five days straight, we had players out there

hitting the ball hard, bowling really fast,

and genuinely staying positive.

Even if they were losing, the psychological effect of Bazball

would be that the other team would become so demoralized that their skills would follow and they would fail and they would be very easy to defeat, especially in the latter parts of the game.

Well, it so turns out there very quickly and early on,

a lot of the competitors, including Australia

and Australia during the ashes,

figured out that that approach doesn't work

from the simple fact that we're all humans not machines and then we do fatigue fairly quickly if you have a high

tempo of activity especially during a cricket game that is played in often warmer temperatures and each game can last over eight hours a day.

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