Steve Waugh has told England's opening batsman they must find a more effective way of combatting leg-spinner Shane Warne if the team are to have a chance of winning the second Ashes Test at Edgbaston starting on Thursday.
England, who have lost the last eight Ashes series, went down to a 239-run first Test defeat at Lord's, a match where Warne struck four times in the second innings to extend his world record of Test wickets to 589.
It was also a game where Warne's fellow 35-year-old Glenn McGrath, Australia's spearhead, joined him as one of only four bowlers to have taken 500 Test wickets. Former Australia captain Waugh, writing in Britain's Sunday Times broadsheet, said he was "shocked to see the complete lack of a game plan from both Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Strauss, who couldnt detect Shane's variations and in the process of looking dumbfounded sent a wave of danger signals to their team-mates watching on the balcony."
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