England fast James Anderson expects the hosts to double down on their aggressive model of cricket regardless of defeat by Australia within the opening Ashes Test.
Debates over the knowledge of the much-trumpeted Bazball method returned in earnest after England misplaced a tense collection opener by two wickets at Edgbaston, having declared within the first innings on 8-393.
But Anderson, 40, stated England and captain Ben Stokes will solely look to push issues in a single path when the collection resumes at Lord’s on Wednesday.
“We’ll go more positive, more aggressive, more entertaining,” the paceman stated.
“We want to try and make sure people go home happy, as they did each day at Edgbaston.
“Just as a result of we’re 1-0 down I do not suppose we’ll strive something completely different.
“We showed enough last week to show we can win the next four if we keep playing like that and iron a few things out. We’ll go exactly the same.”
Anderson was talking as he swapped Bazball for baseball on the London Stadium on Saturday.
As the Chicago Cubs and St Louis Cardinals confronted off within the first of two regular-season video games on the metropolis’s Olympic Park this weekend, Anderson threw the ceremonial first pitch alongside Australia spinner Nathan Lyon.
Anderson’s daughter had spent their journey down from Manchester displaying him movies of the ten worst ceremonial pitches in historical past however he managed to get his over the plate.
The baseball gave Anderson and Lyon a little bit of psychological reduction after the stresses of Edgbaston, the place the sport remained within the steadiness till the very finish.
Lyon stated throwing the pitch was the primary time he had picked up a ball since leaving Birmingham as he tried to get away from what he referred to as a “mental rollercoaster”.
But with a 1-0 lead within the collection, the Australians are understandably in buoyant temper.
“It was an absolutely incredible Test win and to be able to play a part in that was extremely special,” the 35-year-old spinner stated.
“It is going to go down as one of the best Test matches I’ve played in.
“The temper has modified. There’s loads of work we have to do. We really feel like we are able to nonetheless get so much higher, and we have to get so much higher if we wish to compete towards England and the model of cricket they’re taking part in.
“It’s business as usual for us. We can’t control what they’re doing.
“We’ll sit down as a group and determine areas the place we might be higher and the place we consider we have to get higher, so simply give attention to what we are able to do.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
