ENG vs NZ | Nasser Hussain takes a dig at the English batsmen for their batting technique

England was reduced for 122/9 at the stumps with some destructive spells by Neil Wagner (3/18) and Matt Henry (3/36) left them with a minuscule lead of 37 runs. Former England captain Nasser Hussain lashed out at Joe Root & co for their abysmal performance with the bat, calling the team’s batting technique, in a derisive manner, ‘right’ and that of West Indies batting maestro Sir Vivian Richards’ technique as ‘wrong’. 

"There seems to have been a reinvention of the wheel out there with batting. Techniques out there that everyone else who has played the game before - they are all wrong and we are right. We're going to have these odd little techniques, we're going to have the bat coming across it, we're going to stand funny, we're going to swing outside our off-stump because everyone else in the history of the game - Viv Richards, you are wrong, and we are right," Hussain wrote in his Sky Sports.

"I'm not seeing 'we are right' at the moment, whether it be in Sri Lanka where Joe Root carried them, whether it be in India and they don't have the excuse of the pitches turning here. Whether it being the seaming ball or the spinning ball, they are right and everyone else is wrong. And I don't see a young batting line-up. I see Sibley, Burns, Crawley, Root and Pope. There's no one missing in that top five - then come Stokes and Buttler. They've got all the coaches, all the backroom staff - please, just get back to playing normally and getting a first innings score," Hussain added.