COOK PREDICTS THE BASHES

Legend tips Bazball to rattle Aussies this summer

- MIKE WALTERS

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.