How does Neil Harvey, the oldest living Test cricketer, view Bazball? Unsurprisingly, not with any fondness | Cricket News
Neil Harvey, the 97-year-old former Australia captain who was a member of the famed teams of Don Bradman, is still watching Test cricket with interest. Not a lot of it is impressing him. In a wide-ranging interview with British newspaper The Guardian, Harvey spoke about how he has been disappointed with the England team that has toured Australia this year, trailing the five-match series 1-3 as the fifth Test goes into a final day on Thursday. Harvey himself had been an attack-first run-scorer, so he is not too harsh on England and their much-maligned ‘Bazball’ template. But he feels they do not understand how to rein it in. “I’ve been disappointed in England. I think the way they approach the batting side of things, they get too reckless, nobody seems to want to build an innings, like a (Colin) Cowdrey or a (Geoffrey) Boycott,” Harvey told The Guardian. “It might work against ordinary teams but when you get a class side like Australia it’s a different ballgame. I used to score runs relatively quickly, and …
