The Dunning-Kruger effect is a phenomenon where people with lower abilities in a particular area tend to overestimate their skills, and those with higher abilities underestimate themselves. Former Australian cricketer Greg Chappell has said the current iteration of the England team, with their Bazball approach, is going through the same. “Their catastrophic failure, an echo of past collapses, can be neatly framed by the psychological phenomenon known as the Dunning-Kruger effect,” Chappell wrote in his The Sydney Morning Herald column. Unlike the previous English sides which have come to Down Under and taken a pasting (since 2010/11, which is when they last won a series), there was cautious optimism among fans that the side would compete better; however, after two Tests, Ben Stokes’ side is 2-0 down. “In the context of English cricket’s game plan – the aggressive, often reckless approach dubbed ‘Bazball’ – the effect manifests as an overly positive spin on achievements and an unwillingness to accept that a method successful on flat English pitches and small grounds is fundamentally unsuited to the …