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Alex Lees will try to channel his inner Matthew Hayden to make the big score he desperately needs to prove he belongs at the highest level.
Lees has been an obdurate but limited presence at the top of the England order for the last four Tests but, with Brendon McCullum's new broom of positivity sweeping through the dressing room, he knows he must expand his game to survive.
And he will go back to his youth for an example of how he can play and balance a more attacking approach with the defence that has seen him get starts in all but his first two Test innings without yet going past 31.
Alex Lees will try to channel his inner Matthew Hayden to make the big score he needs
The England opener has been an obdurate but limited presence at the top of the order
'Early on at Yorkshire I played in one gear which was 'attack' attack, attack',' said Durham's Lees at Trent Bridge on Wednesday as England trained ahead of Friday's second Test. 'But the older you get the wiser you become and you approach things differently.
'I've probably absorbed the pressure more than I used to
