“Bazball” winds up Australia’s cricketers, England won’t be “nice guys” in the Ashes this summer and Pat Cummins’ back injury could “play into” the hands of the tourists.

The English may not have landed in Australia, but they are already making plenty of noise, playing some provocative verbal shots ahead of a defining Ashes series for the Bazball project.

Opener Zak Crawley set the tone for the 2023 bout in England by cracking Cummins to the cover boundary first ball, and he has declared Ben Stokes’ team will be hoping to “wind up” the hosts this time around.

“Bazball really winds them up, doesn’t it?” Crawley said in a candid interview in The Times before the England white-ball squad arrived in New Zealand over the weekend. “Which is great. If they get wound up, then that’s bette

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