- Cavalier approach leads to loss of three wickets
- Woakes: ‘We always try to take the positive option’
Chris Woakes defended England’s approach after they lost three wickets in the final half-hour of the opening day at Edgbaston to reach stumps at 38 for three, still 244 runs behind, having chosen to be cavalier rather than cautious in a potentially tricky late-afternoon mini-session.
“We always try to take the positive option, particularly the two openers in Zak [Crawley] and Ben [Duckett]. Unfortunately on this occasion it didn’t quite come off,” Woakes said.
Written by Simon Burnton at Edgbaston
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