That won’t change just because it’s the Ashes.” Indeed, Stokes said, the Ashes is the best platform to showcase a style of play he hopes will become commonplace in cricket, for its own good. The bottom line is, everybody fails at some point, so you might as well go out batting the way you want to. “As captain, I’m not going to be chewing people out in press conferences or in the media for trying to play a big shot,” Stokes said in a column in “The Players’ Tribune.” “And behind the scenes, you’re not gonna get a slap on the wrist from me or Brendon McCullum about it. It’s been exciting to watch, I’ve enjoyed watching the way they’ve played and the way they’ve turned things around in the last 12 months, but we’ll wait and see how it comes off against us.” Stokes, who has played a central part in some of the most memorable matches in England’s cricketing history, has insisted there will be no backward step from the English just because they are playing the best Test team in the world in the most storied Test series in cricket. “They’ve obviously done well against some other attacks but they haven’t come up against us yet. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images) “I said it initially when ‘Bazball’ started, that I’m intrigued to see how it goes against our bowlers,” Australia batter Steve Smith said.
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