SIR ALASTAIR COOK is tipping England's 'Bazball' bazookas to rattle the Aussies this summer - because they keep finding a way to confound the critics.
Twenty years and 73 hundreds after making his first-class debut, Ashes legend Cook will pad up at Lord's for a new county season with Essex tomorrow, tipping Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum to turn England's wild things into the Urnvincibles.
Now 38. Cook, a four-time Ashes winner, held court at his Chelmsford fortress and said: "Can Bazball work this summer? Absolutely, I think they can win.
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