England will not win the series if they bat the way they did in Visakhapatnam: Michael Vaughan | Cricket News

Making a scathing attack on Ben Stokes-led England cricket team, former captain Michael Vaughan said the visitors will not be able to win the series, if they would continue to bat the way they batted in the second Test in Visakhapatnam.
“England will not win the series if they bat the way they did in Visakhapatnam,” Vaughan wrote in his column for ‘The Telegraph.’
“I actually think the batsmen need to take a leaf out of the bowlers’ book. With ball in hand, they have been quite traditional at times, aggressive at others, and they have gone up and down the gears in terms of how attacking their fields have been,” he said.
Vaughan feels England’s batting unit need to fine a balance between playing aggressive and traditional cricket to succeed in India.
“England have become a difficult team to criticize too much because they are so good to watch. Every game they play has us all absolutely gripped, and they have improved massively under Ben Stokes.
“However, I do worry that they might become a team who do all this great work only to not actually win very much. They didn’t win the Ashes when they should have done and now they have let India back into a series when they still have a load of big names, including Virat Kohli, to come back.”
England had taken a 1-0 lead in the five-match series in India but Ben Stokes and his men let the hosts draw parity in the second Test as all their batters, barring Zak Crawley, were unable to get big scores.
Vaughan also lauded England’s veteran Jamed Anderson and their inexperienced spinners Tom Hartley, Rehan Ahmed and Shoaib Bashir, who has had an impressive outing so far.
“The young spinners have been fantastic but, for me, James Anderson’s brilliant performance shows that they have to get another seamer, probably Ollie Robinson, in the side with him,” he wrote.