Having spoken to his Nottinghamshire teammate Michael Lumb about England’s incoming Head Coach Trevor Bayliss, Stuart Broad is excited for the new regime.
Bayliss, who has coached Lumb in the Big Bash, is set to take charge ahead of the Ashes and Broad expects the new man to oversee a culture of playing belligerent cricket.
"I've never met him but Michael Lumb, who played under him at Sydney Sixers, says he is a fantastic guy and that he likes to let players take responsibility,” said Broad. “That's what we have done in the past couple of weeks.
"We want to play attacking cricket and play on the front foot which is what you've got to do against New Zealand and Australia. Trevor arrives late June so he will have time to bed in and get some new ideas on board and then hopefully we will be ready to go."
Broad has been made available for Nottinghamshire’s forthcoming LV= County Championship matches ahead of the Ashes, having missed out on selection for the Royal London One-Day International Series.
He is also expected to feature for the Outlaws in tomorrow’s NatWest T20 Blast East Midlands derby against Leicestershire Foxes at Trent Bridge.
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And while Broad admits he’s disappointed not to be playing 50 over cricket for his country this summer, he accepts that the Ashes must take priority.
"I've been expecting not to play this one-day series,” he said. “With 16 Test matches this year it is probably best for the Test bowlers to be rested from white-ball cricket. I'm disappointed not be in the white-ball squad but it is better to get a little bit of rest because you have to see the bigger picture.
"I think we've got guys throughout the New Zealand series who have performed with bat and ball and we have got a five-week break coming up from red ball cricket. Some guys will go and play white-ball cricket but others need to get good match-form leading into the Ashes.
"The players always want to play. The hierarchy consult the medical staff. Every ball we bowl in training and in matches gets logged and when you get into the red zone when you have done a lot of bowling then you get asked to pull back a bit because you are a high-risk of injury. So we are looked after very well these days."
The drawn Investec Test Series against New Zealand was a personal success for Broad who collected 13 wickets at an average of 25.38 over the course of the two matches.
The 28-year-old is also taking pre-Ashes positives from the performance of the team despite New Zealand’s 199-run win at Headingley, which squared the series at one Test all.
"The excitement level was high, the batsmen came out and tried to give it a whack, the bowlers had to try and counteract that and there were some great catches as well.
"The Lord's game was so exciting, everyone playing on the front foot and credit to New Zealand who came back fantastically well. It was disappointing not to get the series win but a draw was probably a fair result over the piece.
"The two-Test series is always quite short. I personally like the longer four-five Test series because you get a feel for the opposition. You can get on top of different batsmen and work them out and vice versa. The spectators get into it more but of course we have a fantastic five-match series against Australia coming up.”
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