‘Rules don’t apply to us, we’re the upholders of the spirit of cricket’: Xavier Doherty blasts England’s mob mentality, calls it a -product of Bazball

Former Australia spinner Xavier Doherty has made a scathing attack on Bazball saying the new brand of England cricket is completely reckless and it has flatten to deceive so far in the Ashes.
“I went into this Ashes series looking forward to Bazball and this exciting brand of cricket that England play and it’s turned out to be a bit of a flop, I reckon,” he said on SEN Tassie.
“I think it’s just an excuse for them to go out and do whatever they want with no accountability and just be reckless.
“England have at times played some really good cricket and then just do something awfully stupid and then just say, ‘ah well, that’s all just part of it’.”

Doherty says barring barring their skipper Ben Stokes England have been generall reckless in the ongoing Ashes.
“At the moment during this Test they’ve got themselves in a reasonable position… but outside Ben Stokes they’ve generally just been reckless and thrown the game back in favour of Australia,” Doherty said.
“Moeen Ali’s dismissal last night, it’s just unbelievable. They found themselves in a bit of strife and Ali and Stokes tried to wrestle the momentum back, Pat Cummins bounces him, he gets a top edge and it fell 20 metres short of a fielder, Australia the very next ball, puts a fielder right where the ball landed and he does the exact same thing and gets caught and walks off like, ‘it’s just the way we play’.
“In theory, it’s not bad… but there’s a reason why Test cricket is played the way it’s played.”
Doherty, who has played 4 Tests, 60 ODIs, and 11 T20Is has called the outrage over Jonny Barow’s dismissal as as a -product of Bazball.

“It’s just another excuse for the English to call Australia cheats… it’s like a mob mentality,” he said.
“The cricket crowd over there is turning into a football crowd with the chants and the abuse.”
“It’s just this unaccountable mindset that they’ve got, the rules don’t apply to us anymore so we’ll do and say whatever we feel like and then we’ll be the upholders of the spirit of cricket and we’ll tell other people what they should be doing,” he added.
“They’re in a world of their own at the minute and this Bazball phenomenon has gone to their heads, no doubt.”