Photo exposes Poms’ bizarre Ashes call as great questions Bazball’s backwards build-up plan

Former captain Michael Vaughan says England must “earn the right” to deploy its BazBall brand in Australia by playing traditionally for the first 20 overs.

Vaughan believes the series is up for grabs, particularly with the injury cloud hovering over Aussie skipper Pat Cummins.

But he fears England could go too hard, too early and fail to respect Australia’s top-line attack with the new ball.

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“You can’t just play the aggressive way in Australia all the time, you have to go up and down in the gears,” Vaughan told the Following On podcast.

“Yes, you have that mindset of wanting to be aggressive, but if you’re facing (Josh) Hazlewood and (Mitchell) Starc … the bigger boundaries, you’ve got be very wary.

“I haven’t seen a team play that way and win in Australia. I’ve seen many teams earn the right to play that way around the 30th over mark to the 80th over mark when the ball is a bit softer.

“It might be that England have to play a bit traditionally for the first 20 overs to earn the right to be there when the ball is softer, the pitch is playing with a more pure sense.

“If they can do that, and earn the right, they’ll score quick enough anyway.

“My concern is with the ball moving around, they go too hard, too soon and you lose five or six wickets very quickly which has happened before with this England team and it’s just happened recently in New Zealand.”

Vaughan also questions England’s preparation, a solitary a three-day match against England Lions at Lilac Hill.

Lilac Hill is the Western Australian Premier Cricket home of Midland-Guildford.

Vaughan says the low and slow wicket will hardly prepare the English for the speed and bounce on offer at Perth Stadium.

“I am not an old-school dinosaur who says, ‘Oh they should have played three or four games’, I am not in that school of thought,” he said.

“But the game at Lilac Hill that they’re playing is on a pitch that will bounce really low, then they’ll play a week later at the Perth Stadium which will bounce really high.

“It’s adjusting the lengths the bowlers need to and the batters are going to have to get used to that extra bounce.

“That’s going to be a real challenge for this England side.”

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