Ollie Pope believes England’s batsmen will be “ruthless” in their scoring and could even score 600 runs in a day as they aim to win a Test series against the West Indies.

England followed up their win at Lord’s last week with a comprehensive 241-point win at Trent Bridge to take a 2-0 lead.

The win at Nottingham was the first time England scored 400 or more in both innings of a Test match; the totals were 416 and 425.

The third and final Test match between England and West Indies begins at Edgbaston on Friday.

Vice-captain Pope vowed there would be no let-up in their approach even if England wrapped up the series and regained the Botham-Richards Cup.

“There’s a real hunger – there’s always a hunger – but there’s something extra in the batting line-up now,” Pope said.

“As a batting unit we want to be as ruthless as possible, but still play that way because it’s our natural game. Obviously being ruthless is part of Test cricket as well.”

Pope was one of England’s three hundredth scorers in the second Test, along with Joe Root and Harry Brook.

He accepted that England’s batsmen needed to “manage the game a little bit better at times” but said their attacking approach had now become second nature.

The 26-year-old also believes England can break the record for runs scored in a day of Test cricket with the ‘Bazball’ style of batting developed by coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes

Sri Lanka’s total of 509-9 against Bangladesh in July 2002 is the highest total achieved by a team in a single day of Test cricket.

England fell just three runs short of breaking that record against Pakistan in Rawalpindi in December 2022, but Pope feels they can achieve a much bigger feat.

“I was asked on day one, ‘are you told to play like this?’ No, you’re not. It’s just our natural play and the way we do it,” Pope added.

“Sometimes we can get 280-300 points in a day but that’s not a problem and it’s probably because we read the situations.

“There may also be a day in the future where we can go and get to 500 to 600 at some point. And that’s a great thing to have.”