Ollie Pope epitomised England's new batting approach with a solid batting display at LordsAttack still works bestThe phrase Bazball is one Brendon McCullum doesn’t care for and before this series it seemed as though Dean Elgar wasn’t keen on it either. Yes, England will come unstuck playing this brand of cricket, as we saw on Wednesday, but monumental blocking doesn’t get you very far either. England’s tactics will work more often than not...You've got to bowl well too... not that scoring rapidly is new in Test cricket. It’s the same thing now, only Australia had two of the great bowlers in Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath to help make it work. It was fascinating listening to Sir Andrew Strauss on the rise of franchise cricket on Test Match Special.

Source: Daily Mail August 18, 2022 01:18 UTC