England’s aggressive approach towards Test cricket, also known as Bazball, has captured the imagination of the cricketing world.

With this style, the Three Lions have produced impressive results under the regime of Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum over the last one year. While England defeated New Zealand, South Africa and India (one-off Test at Edgbaston) at home, they whitewashed Pakistan away from home and played a 1-1 drawn series in New Zealand.

England didn’t change their approach in the recently-concluded Ashes series against Australia as well. Despite being 2-0 down, they played fearlessly to bounce back and level the five-match series 2-2.

Talking about the Bazball method, veteran spinner R Ashwin said it won’t work with his national team as India’s cricketing culture doesn’t back bad results.

“We are playing Test cricket very well. But we will go through a transition soon. And things won’t be easy during that phase. There will be a few issues here and there. But let’s assume India adopts Bazball during this phase. Let us assume a player throws his bat at everything like Harry Brook and gets out and we lose two Test matches. What will we do? Will we back Bazball and the players?” asked Ashwin on his YouTube channel.

“We will drop at least four players from our playing XI. That’s how our culture has always been. We can’t copy others style of play just because it worked for them. It works for them because their management is fully in with this style of play, their selectors back the players to play this way. In fact, even their crowd and Test match watching public are backing the team in this process. But we can’t do this,” he added.

India will host the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup later this year and Ashwin urged the fans to support the team positively during the showpiece tournament.

“Winning a World Cup is not easy guys. Just because we play a certain player or drop a certain player, we can’t win. All of us are hindsight kings. The hindsight operations don’t work here. We have qualified for the semi-final of almost all major tournaments. On that day we haven’t been good enough,” said Ashwin.

While the 50-over World Cup is slated to get underway on October 5 with the England versus New Zealand clash in Ahmedabad, India will open their campaign against five-time champions Australia at Chepauk on October 8.