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The Life Cycle of a Cult tends to be marked by specific steps.

1. The Grand Vision

A dominant personality or coaches introduce an innovative concept pledging a panacea for struggling players.

And so it goes. Preparations are underway to storm the compound in Australia. The gunships are circling. Smoke is rising from the sidelines. An isolated player, naked, anxious, the words HIGH RELEASE POINT written on his body in chicken blood, has emerged into view and is being led away in secrecy towards an inconclusive loan stint elsewhere.

Remember the beginning, when the world was still young? The initial phase, of Bazball without brains.

2. Initial Adoration

Movement founders guarantee a new start, optimism ahead, support, redemption within a community who all believe in the method.

What did it represent back then? Just men on a balcony enjoying success. Body art. Forearms. Determination. Peak performance vibes. Admittedly, The team will claim they don’t use the label, which is funny because if it doesn’t exist, what did we see?

But we know the concept. It’s Harry Brook executing a stroke so outrageous it’s beyond belief. It’s the adrenaline of the captain in his final form, an expression conveying: pensive Nordic god, beard made of wood, hair woven from beaver hide, so authentically Modern Savage you almost imagine to glance over and find him positioned on the ground shirtless embracing nature.

It’s the batsman still being allowed speaking publicly, resembling a happy little woodland creature smartly dressed, expressing thoughts like we are actively deconstructing the orange. Certainly, the atmosphere, initially, was uplifting.

3. The Growth Phase

Growth phase. Togetherness strengthened through repetition of the cult’s slogans. These ideas can appear contradictory as a loyalty check.

Does anyone else feel? The backlash, the anger, the feeling of letdown post-defeat seems too strong, overdone. The batting collapsed in Perth, as history shows. They were savaged defensively during a brief period when tactics failed, carved around by the batsman batting like England but better, responsive to the situation, an athlete shining with aura.

Currently, we see the criticism, the anger, the view of the sport as a disgrace. The opinion suggests that defeat must be total, they need to lose righteously, to be cleansed, destroyed, destroyed via traditional methods of the pace attack, the conventional tactics of the veteran, out there celebrating achievements humbly similar to getting a nice new fishing rod. What will this do to them?

4. Hate Bonding

Issues emerge because of mistakes. However, faults are ignored. It starts to feed on anger towards critics.

The fact remains, half a week out the next match, we’ve entered a delicious point of tension in the story of this thing. England could quite easily win overseas with bold tactics. Probably, defeat could come swiftly. Should they fail it appears we may see the final stage.

Before that happens, there are two things to note regarding this. In the past, back in those heady early days, of passion and hope, I wrote an article calling it a phenomenon. People were very angry, which proved the point as it’s known the best way of proving that it’s not a closed group is if supporters react defensively rejecting criticism of its truths.

What has happened recently is just as interesting. Opposition to the style has now become the cult. We have a uniformly angry internet, critical analysts, images of frustrated supporters abroad missing out on play, like a room full of timeshare owners seeking justice.

Meanwhile, there is the broader context of Australia’s more nuanced ingrained annoyance towards the unconventional visitors, out there saying, your cherished traditions and have honed as part of your identity from others, well, it’s all a bit of a gag after all.

And this is the real point. Everything is a cult. The approach was a phenomenon because cricket is a cult. In fact, the team has long been exclusive, a clique, a garden party, an insular community with two hundred years of tradition and mystery supporting it. This has always been where influence is guarded. It’s the colonial game of England, the pioneering brand. And surprisingly, the country is a phenomenon, a series of esoteric hierarchies, a place that literally still has a king.

The players have been sealed up within this world from a young age. In trying to escape from it, to build a better atmosphere, they are simply replicating their upbringing, forming a new circle, an exclusive group, however with a new team and a leader promoting authenticity as long as yourself is quite a lot like myself.

Stay present. Confront risks. However much you change, you’re always basically in the same place.

Considering this, it might be appropriate to show understanding for the movement, to acknowledge its merits, of which there are many. What does it represent? Creating a sense of freedom. Questioning traditions. Batting aggressively|Attacking with