Bazball
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Bazball is an informal term for the style of play developed by the England cricket team in Test matches following the appointments of Brendon "Baz" McCullum as Test head coach and Ben Stokes as Test c
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Nightwatchman (cricket)
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In the sport of cricket, a nightwatchman is a lower-order batter who comes in to bat higher up the order than usual near the end of the day's play. The nightwatchman's job is to maintain most of the s
Bazball
…slips, three men in front of square, and a back-stop. The Bazball era of English test cricket has seen the team at times eschew the traditional use of a nightwatchman, in favour of a "nighthawk". Instead of promoting a lower-order batsmen late in a day to protect the top order by blocking, the lower-order batter is…
Jason Gillespie holds the record for the highest Test score from a nightwatchman, scoring 201* against Bangladesh at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium during the second test of Australia's 2005-06 tour of Bangladesh