Northamptonshire head coach John Sadler says batters making an attempt to emulate England’s Bazball method is likely one of the components behind their relegation.
Earlier than the sport at The Oval, they’d solely managed 4 batting factors from their earlier 12 matches.
“I believe we acquired drawn right into a little bit of Bazball as a batting group early season,” mentioned Sadler.
“We have seen how England play, a few lads doubtlessly needed to play that technique to get seen additional up (by the selectors) – the educational from that’s there’s multiple technique to pores and skin a cat.
“We have seen some excellent gamers play a bit of quaint this yr and nonetheless do very effectively,” he instructed BBC Radio Northampton.
Northamptonshire completed sixth in Division One in 2022 however have solely received one out of 13 video games this season.
Sadler mentioned they’d relied on “good, onerous, attritional cricket” final yr and there have been no excuses for this summer time’s downturn, however there have been quite a lot of contributing components.
“That first block of six video games, we misplaced 5 tosses out of six, the one which we did win, we received the sport towards Middlesex,” he added.
“We had some large gamers injured, we misplaced our captain for a bit of these video games, we misplaced our wicketkeeper, Sando [Ben Sanderson] wasn’t match, he was out and in of the facet and did not have as a lot zip as he is acquired now.
“Emilio [Gay] had a knee operation two weeks earlier than the beginning of the season, Tommy Taylor had a sore again, it is why we have a look at having squad depth.
“There’s quite a lot of causes however in the end we have not performed adequate cricket.”
Northants nearly doubled their batting factors tally as their first-innings 357 all out towards Surrey earned them three factors, however needed to accept a draw regardless of making the leaders observe on.
“Earlier than the sport we had 4 batting factors – in the event you’d instructed me that in the beginning of the season, I would not have believed you,” Sadler mentioned.
“4 factors is manner off actually. When you’re solely scoring 4 batting factors over the course of a season, that is not going to place us ready to win, and bowling-wise, with the accidents we have had, it is meant that Jack White’s needed to bowl increasingly overs with out a relaxation and Sando’s needed to play when he is not fairly prepared.”
Northamptonshire end the season with a house match towards second-placed Essex, beginning on Tuesday.