sport news England's aggressive batting approach is nothing new in and tactics will work ... trends now

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The 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 yesterday, but monumental blocking doesn’t get you very far either. England’s tactics will work more often than not...not that scoring rapidly is new in Test cricket. When I was England coach I would speak to my Australian counterparts who wanted to get them as quickly as possible so they had time to take 20 wickets.

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.