Ashes 2023: Australia trying 'Bazball' will help England - Stuart Broad

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England bowler Stuart Broad successful action

Stuart Broad says "it would beryllium great" if Australia tried to reflector England's 'Bazball' tactics during this summer's Ashes series.

They volition look to regain the Ashes successful a five-Test bid starting connected 16 June.

"I deliberation it would beryllium large for america if Australia effort to instrumentality america connected astatine our ain game," Broad, 36, told the Daily Mail.

"If we tin get them playing successful a somewhat antithetic benignant they could marque mistakes and that would beryllium superb for us."

Australia batter Steve Smith scored 774 runs astatine an mean of 110.57 successful the past Ashes bid successful England, a 2-2 gully successful 2019.

Broad said: "Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne and Usman Khawaja are each guys who similar to bat clip and accumulate truthful if we tin nibble distant astatine them and conscionable get them reasoning 'why are we not scoring quicker? Why are we not moving the crippled forward?'"

Before McCullum and Stokes took over, England had won conscionable 1 of their erstwhile 17 Tests - including a 4-0 bid nonaccomplishment successful Australia successful 2021/22.

But nether the caller authorities they chased 299 successful conscionable 50 overs to bushed New Zealand successful June 2022 astatine Trent Bridge and followed up by pursuing 378 - an England grounds - to decision India astatine Edgbaston.

In December, they blitzed 506-4 connected time 1 of the archetypal Test against Pakistan connected the mode to a 3-0 bid victory, the archetypal clip a visiting squad had secured a cleanable expanse successful Pakistan.

Australia person held the Ashes since 2018 but person not won a bid successful England since 2001, though they swept England speech successful the astir caller bid Down Under.

"Nothing was harsher than the past Ashes series," said Broad.

"But successful my caput I don't people that arsenic a existent Ashes. The explanation of Ashes cricket is elite athletics with tons of passionateness and players astatine the apical of their game.

"Nothing astir that bid was high-level show due to the fact that of the Covid restrictions.

"The grooming facilities, the travel, not being capable to socialise. I've written it disconnected arsenic a void series."

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