Broad, who sits fifth overall on the list for most wickets in Test history with 604 scalps, wants England’s pacers to attempt to frustrate Head and try and get him to do something different to what he is accustomed to.
“What they could have done when Travis Head was really going, then you have to use your awareness to say, ‘Let’s get him off strike, let’s let him to face one ball an over and it’s a clip off his hip and he gets one and you don’t let him face four, five balls an over and he hits a boundary in those’”, Broad told Australian radio station SEN.
“And crucially, when you get him off strike, Marnus Labuschagne comes down to the facing end, you bowl dots at him and create pressure on him.
“Suddenly, you do that for forty minutes, and Travis Head gets bored of getting a single and tries something outrageous and might get out.
“That’s what England could have done a bit better. Yes, we like to see this aggressive play, and it’s always looking at the positive option.
“But sometimes, the positive option is to take the bite out of what’s going on just to try and make Travis Head do something different.
“You can’t just let him keep flaying it for hours on end and ends up with 120-odd off 80-odd balls.
“I think England could have done that a bit differently.”
