Since England captain Stokes joined forces with coach Brendon McCullum last year, the team have become renowned for their bold ‘Bazball’ approach to red-ball cricket.

But with heavy rain forecast on the fourth and fifth days in Manchester, England may have to up their tempo while trying to force a win in a match starting Wednesday. “You never want to look too much into the weather but in the position we find ourselves in, we find we might have to,” Stokes told an Old Trafford news conference on Tuesday. 

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“We know we have to win this game to take it to the last game for us to have a chance of getting the urn back. Going into the last game 0-2 down, we knew we had to win that so I think that helped us a little bit. Maybe again with the weather that’s predicted, it might bring more out of us again knowing that we might have to push the game on even more than we normally do. We’ll just have to wait and see,” he said.

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