England are unlikely to tinker with their side for the second Ashes test against Australia starting in Brisbane next week despite being thumped in the opening match, their former fast bowler James Anderson said.

England deployed a pace heavy attack in Perth and bowled out the hosts for 132 in their first innings, with skipper Ben Stokes picking up five wickets, but they went on lose the extraordinary clash inside two days.

A Travis Head knock in the second innings took the sting out of the tourists' bowling unit with the Australia opener scoring the only century of the match to script an eight-wicket win.

"The all-pace attack 100 per cent worked in the first innings. We landed a few blows," England's all-time leading test wicket-taker Anderson said on the BBC's Tailenders podcast.

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