The Spin | ‘New lease of life’: how walking cricket is giving the over-50s a taste of Bazball

Older people are reconnecting with their inner child by taking up the bat again and remembering how fun the sport can beIn Lawrence Booth and Nick Hoult’s terrific book on the subject, James Anderson is asked what Bazball means to him. “Bazball is trying to encourage people to get back to the kid in you,” he says. “How you imagined the game would be: exciting, fast and fun.”Some of the purest forms of Bazball are being played in leisure centres up and down the count