India, Dec. 21 -- Geoffrey Boycott has always been a vocal and outspoken figure in the English cricket media, and with the team slipping to a 3-0 series loss in humiliating fashion on the tour of Australia for the Ashes, the floodgates were opened for one of English cricket's most controversial figures.

However, on this occasion, it is safe to say that Boycott's words of anger and disapproval would be mirrored by many fans at home, as he called England's 'Bazball' philosophy of ultra-aggressive cricket a failed experiment, and demanded that the team move on from coach Brendon McCullum.

Writing in his column for the Daily Telegraph, Boycott said: "A lot of credit should go to Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes for what they have done for ou...