Birmingham: Be angry and challenge Virat Kohli, urged former captain Michael Vaughan to an English side hosting an ambitious India in a highly anticipated Test series.

Besides, the 43-year-old who opened for his country for almost a decade, wants the seasoned Alastair Cook to show consistency and captain Joe Root to convert his starts into monumental knocks.

Vaughan prefers a five-man bowling attack and last but not the least, he goaded the pace duo of Stuart Broad and James Anderson to "step up and challenge Virat Kohli's front foot."

"The good thing for England is they are playing at Edgbaston. We just don't lose there, and Broad and Anderson love bowling at the ground. You expect them to step up and challenge Kohli's front foot.

"Bowl outside off-stump and then throw the odd one in straight to get him playing across the line and scissor his feet."

Speaking about Kohli's batting, Vaughan observed: "You need his front foot going over to the off side. He then starts doubting where his off-stump is and playing squarer on the off side, which is when the outside edge comes into play.

"England did it in the one-day series at times. He was vulnerable a yard outside off-stump, and the likes of Anderson and Broad have to hang it out there and say, 'Come to us'. If there is any movement in the air, they will be a real threat," Vaughan wrote in a British daily.

About England's approach, Vaughan said: "Joe Root needs to hammer home to his men that they have a point to prove and try to replicate that angry England team that arrived at Headingley and hammered Pakistan in their last Test. Go back and say to the players: 'What were you thinking that first day at Headingley'?" Agencies