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One word that has been in a lot of discussions since Team India’s loss against England is ‘Badge Ball’. There is a lot of talk about this word in English cricket. Actually, before the New Zealand series, the performance of the England team was very poor. Because of this, even then captain Joe Root had to resign from his post. Along with this, coach Chris Silverwood was also removed from his post. The day of May 12, 2022 brought a change for England and former New Zealand explosive batsman Brendon McCullum was appointed as the new coach of England’s Test team. After this, the three-match Test series between England and New Zealand started from June 2 and England won all three Tests while chasing. The special thing was that in all three Tests, England easily chased the target of more than 250 in the fourth innings. After this, discussions of ‘Badge Ball’ started happening. The term became more famous after England’s historic 378-run chase against India. Actually, the new strategy of the England cricket team has been called ‘Badge Ball’ Effect. Effect means effect. That is, the impact of the ‘Badge Ball’ strategy on the England team. The term badge also came into the limelight because the nick name of the new England coach Brendon McCullum is the badge. McCullum had said as soon as he became the coach that the England team would now play more aggressively. Along with this, he had said that no matter how big the score is in the fourth innings, the English team will play for chasing instead of defending it. This strategy was called Badge Ball. This new strategy of England proved to be effective and the team has won four matches in a row. In all four matches, England chased a score of 275 plus runs in a difficult situation like the fifth day. Following the same strategy, England made a clean sweep of New Zealand 3-0. In the first Test, England scored 279 for five in the fourth innings and won. At the same time, in the second test, England scored 299 runs for five wickets against the Kiwi team and registered a victory. In the third Test against New Zealand, England won the match by scoring 296 runs for three wickets. In the Birmingham Test against India, England won the toss and decided to bowl first. At the time of the toss, England captain Ben Stokes had said that his team has the ability to chase any score in the fourth innings, so he has decided to bowl first. The decision to bowl first was taken by England so that it would get a chance to chase in the fourth innings. He also proved this by chasing 378 runs. This is England’s biggest run chase in Tests. At the same time, here was the eighth biggest run chase of the Test. Despite the fall of three wickets, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow played excellent innings to win the England team. Bairstow and Root have proved to be the biggest game changers for England in this ‘badge ball’ strategy. Both of them have taken a lot of runs in the middle overs. Talking about the statistics, from February 2021 to May 2022, the England team played a total of 18 Tests, in which they won only two Tests. Since the arrival of coach McCullum, England have played four Tests and have won all four. However, these victories will not have much impact in the 2021-2023 World Test Championship, as the England team is almost out of the race for the final. Yes, this ‘badge ball’ has definitely given the other teams the vision to win and be aggressive.
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One word that has been in a lot of discussions since Team India’s loss against England is ‘Badge Ball’. There is a lot of talk about this word in English cricket. Actually, before the New Zealand series, the performance of the England team was very poor. Because of this, even then captain Joe Root had to resign from his post. Along with this, coach Chris Silverwood was also removed from his post.