South Africa skipper Dean Elgar rapped out another warning to England over their style of cricket despite trying his best to avoid the subject of 'Bazball'.
The Proteas batsman got a taste of the gung-ho aggression in a warm up defeat to the England Lions where Dan Lawrence, Harry Brook and Ben Duckett all took the visiting bowlers apart. But Elgar reckons his first choice attack will have more than enough to put the skids under Ben Stokes' side and things won’t look very good for them if a similar approach goes 'pear-shaped' this week.
“I am really not going to entertain that phrase anymore,” said Elgar. “We have chatted about it long and hard and I just want to crack on with the cricket.