The Australians’ Fatal Misapprehension: A Meditation on ‘Bazball’™

The first in a series of regular Ashes newspaper columns from an anonymous knighted former England Test cricket captain

Those of us privileged to witness the 2010/11 Ashes and the remarkable feats of Andrew Strauss’s side, recall it with considerable fondness. These heroes - for that is what they indubitably were - tamed the old enemy in a manner rarely seen, inflicting three innings victories on the hapless home side as they retained the urn in spectacular fashion. Furt…