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They gave Pakistan a sniff in both the first two games with some bold decisions/brain-faded batting. You do feel a better team would have taken advantage of both.
It took me a while to get into this, but I'm a total BazBall convert now. Grew up in an era when England were being humiliated regularly and more often than not folded meekly under any kind of pressure, so if the new approach scares the shit out of the opposition, is largely successful and sees the side go down fighting now and then when it does go wrong, I'm OK with that.
ketsbaia-
Yes - agree with this. Though, like you, have the long-embedded feeling that something is always on the verge of going wrong (collapse, unable to knock over 9/10, unable to ever get out Smith/Labuschagne/Williamson/Kohli for less than 150, another collapse). It's hard to shake even in the light of recent evidence.
villa-ru
There is bound to be a massive failure of this approach at some point (at least in one innings) but the confidence they now have to battle from any position will be key to how they bounce back from that. Not going to be dull - that's for sure.