I think you guys are being too harsh on Bazball here. As many have pointed out, including me, for long now, you gotta take the good with the bad with this style of play. I still remember a lot of our NZ posters explaining the original methods of Brendon McCullum's batting as something like "if batsmen keep playing shots without worrying about defence, they will have the odd day when everything comes off but also many days when nothing does." Obviously paraphrasing here, but I think it was
@Prince EWS who made that kind of post about his batting and how other test batsmen can also do the same, they just choose not to coz they want to enable more consistent results for their team. But what Baz has done now is get a whole team to buy into that philosophy but tempered to an extent.
Personally, I dont think this England side with their current personnel (in as far as I have seen, even the ones knocking on the doors or around the side etc.) getting the results they did with their traditional methods. These guys have got results playing this way and lets face it - playing India in India in tests is and has been the toughest challenge in cricket for about the last 15 years. I felt the sides we put out against Australia and the form we were in during that series meant Oz squandered what probably would have been their best chance at winning here and I feel the same about England here. But its silly to think they would have done better with these personnel with more traditional methods. So gotta take the occassional L like this when it has been this successful otherwise.
What must be done, though, is some tempering of how some of these guys seem to buy into their own hype. I said it during the Ashes and earlier this series. I think the biggest kryptonite of Bazball is themselves and how seriously they take their own hype. If you can stay grouded and understand moments when its a dogfight and you kinda gotta first stand your ground before you can advance. This is not the way England chased down runs in that summer in 2022, they knuckled down during the tough spells and then took advantage when the fielding side lost their heads.