Ashes superstar Jofra Archer has called on England to pick a five-pronged pace attack for Adelaide

England is under enormous pressure to shake up their attack for the second Test in Adelaide starting on Thursday, but the path forward is far from straight forward after whopping penalties for slow over rates dished out by the ICC made it high risk for them to axe spinner Jack Leach, who was destroyed by Australia in Brisbane.

With James Anderson and Stuart Broad poised for a recall to take advantage of hooping conditions under lights, England’s embattled brain’s trust have some massive calls to make, given quicks Mark Wood and Ollie Robinson caused Australia headaches in Brisbane.

Archer, ruled out of the Ashes with an elbow injury, knows from personal experience that Australia is a fast bowler’s paradise and urged England to be brave and throw the kitchen sink at turning the series around with a five-man pace arsenal – not just in Adelaide – but for the rest of the tour.

“Being in Australia period, not just the day-night Test, it would be tempting,” said Archer, an ambassador for Kayo who are streaming every ball of the Ashes live and ad-break free.

“Australia is probably the one place in the world where you’re going to get the most consistent (conditions) for fast bowling. So it might be tempting to just pick five fast bowlers regardless.”

Archer admits he found the first Test difficult to watch from the UK, knowing how much he would have relished ripping in on pacy Australian decks.

“It was actually, because you know, it’s one of those tours as a fast bowler that you don’t want to miss,” said Archer.

“You know you’re going to get purchase if you bend your back. Australia is where fast bowlers thrive.”

Archer recently featured alongside David Warner, Rashid Khan and Brett Lee in Kayo’s new brand campaign.

Former Australian fast bowler Jason Gillespie also weighed in on England’s selection issues, adamant captain Joe Root must face the reality he simply does not have a spinner in his squad with the armoury to compete against the likes of David Warner, Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head.

Root stood up for Leach after he was savaged by Australia at the Gabba, taking the blame for setting his left-arm finger spinner up to fail with fields that were too aggressive.

But Gillespie said the brutal truth is neither Leach nor England’s back-up spinner Dom Bess can survive in Australia.

England’s problem is that if they don’t play a spinner they leave themselves vulnerable to further over rate dramas in Adelaide.

ICC match referee David Boon already docked the team their entire match fee from Brisbane and penalised them five points from the World Test Championship table – a further points deduction would severely impact their chances of pushing for the final, given a similar penalty cost Australia qualification last summer.

Gillespie wrote in his UK Daily Mail column that Root must abandon his spin plans regardless, because Leach’s figures of 1-102 at the Gabba will not be a one off.

“Australians always have and always will take on finger spin because it doesn’t offer a hell of a lot. The policy is to go hard at it,” wrote Gillespie.

“You didn’t have to be Einstein to see that Jack Leach would be lined up to be pommeled.

“… If Dom Bess comes in, he can expect the same treatment.

“… As a finger spinner, Nathan Lyon is an outlier. He is one of the greats of the game as a 400-wicket bowler, but even then they only come around every 67 balls.

“…. A captain can only work with the players he has at his disposal and the way Australia have treated Leach will be a learning curve for him (Root).”