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Bazball

Bazball noun: an aggressive run-scoring approach to cricket.

Noun

Bazball (uncountable)

  1. (informal, neologism, slang) An aggressive run-scoring approach to cricket.
    • BRENDON McCullum has referred to ‘Bazball’, the playful term coined in homage to England’s new Test head coach, as ‘silly’.[2022 July 9, “England's McCullum dismisses ‘Bazball’ as ‘silly’”, in Manchester Evening News, Glasgow, page 41
    • THE effects of Bazball can already be seen in the wider cricketing world, too. No sooner had Ben Stokes put out a call to arms telling county cricketers they had to play his way to get in the England team comes evidence of a response from Dom Sibley.2022 July 13, Paul Newman, “World of Cricket”, in Daily Mail, London, page 70

Bazball meaning in Bengali

Bazball in Bengali

Bazball, a term describing an aggressive and fearless style of cricket
বাজ়বল

Examples of Bazball in a sentence

  • The focus on Bazball may have damaged England's chances at the World Cup – but it is "seemingly now also part of the solution".2023 November 18, “Cricket: what the white-ball side can learn from Bazball”, in The Week, Bath, page 24:
  • The debate about ‘Bazball’ is absurd: for professional sport to survive it has to be entertaining, and aggressive cricket is undoubtedly far more entertaining than defensive cricket.2024 April 6, Roger Alton, “County cricket needs Bazball”, in The Spectator, London:

Origin of Bazball

From Baz + ball, Baz being the nickname of New Zealand cricketer and coach Brendon McCullum.

Questions about Bazball

What does Bazball mean?
Bazball means an aggressive run-scoring approach to cricket.
What is Bazball in Bengali?
Bazball in Bengali is বাজ়বল. See Bazball meaning in Bengali.
How do you use Bazball in a sentence?
The focus on Bazball may have damaged England's chances at the World Cup – but it is "seemingly now also part of the solution".
What part of speech is Bazball?
Bazball is a noun.

Words near Bazball in the dictionary

  1. bazaruco
  2. bazarucos
  3. Bazaruto Archipelago
  4. bazas
  5. bazazz
  6. Bazball
  7. baze
  8. bazedoxifene
  9. bazeen
  10. Bazell
  11. Bazells

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Bazball (page history and authors); বাজ়বল (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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