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On Bazball’s Resurrection and Theological Vindication

Musings on the third and fourth Ashes Tests, from an anonymous knighted former England Test cricket captain

Dan Liebke
Jan 01, 2026
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I am not a religious man - I consider myself more a student of the Enlightenment, preferring Voltaire to the Gospels. Yet what I witnessed at Melbourne requires theological language to describe adequately.

Certain critics - lacking both imagination and understanding - have long dismissed ‘Bazball’™ as a cult. But cults are false religions, charlatan oper…

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