England will become more entertaining if they do not Bazball all the time

Although there has already been one excellent book on the subject of Bazball – The Inside Story of a Test Cricket Revolution, by my colleague Nick Hoult and Lawrence Booth, the Editor of Wisden – it will, in the nature of things, probably be some years before the full philosophical history of the strategy comes out. This is not because anyone involved in the development of this aggressive approach to a supposedly sedate game is keeping anything secret; it is because the way that history works is