This is the Friends of History and Debating Society.

I'm John Batchu with my Cricket Coates,

Jeremy Zackas in New South Wales.

Ash's.

It's never too early to get ready for ashes.

Now, the rumor is, the gossip is that the England team is bothered by its poor performance.

The last five-day test against Australia.

And they're preparing, but that Bazzball, it has damaged their ability to play.

It's distorted their game.

Explain this to me, Jeremy.

This is interesting, John.

This is very interesting because Bazzball came about after the English team lost so badly

to the Australian team and the ashes series last year.

And what Bazzball is is this very aggressive, very quick form of cricket,

where basically you try and overwhelm your competitor by hitting the ball harder,

bowling faster.

Instead of playing a strategic long game,

you try and win the five-day series pretty much in the first day.

So it takes a lot of energy and it's almost impossible to sustain for five days,

but the shock and awe of it supposed to work.

But what has happened now is that County Cricket in England,

so this is basically a state-level cricket where the professional cricket players

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