How should a batsman respond if the fielding team bowls a negative line?

[street cricketer]

Sometimes in test cricket, a batsman is faced with a negative field setup when the opposition team wants to curb down the scoring rate or if it wants to block one side of the ground on which the batsman is exceptionally strong at.

How should a batsman respond, if suppose the fielding team employs a 7-2 field and keeps bowling around the 6th stump line.

Should he keep leaving the balls until the bowler bowls a straighter line but at the risk of destroying the game as a spectacle, or should he play the ball but at the risk of losing his wicket?

 

[SankarReddy]

I always wanted batsman to outsmart the bowler in these cases to take different stance each ball. expose the leg stump, outside the crease, inside the crease, offstump guard etc... Just play the mind games back at the bowler and smile at him.. It works in local cricket but haven't seen done regularly at international level.

 

[Markhor]

It happened in the Edgbaston Test. England waited and waited as Pakistan's 4 bowler attack tired themselves out, then Bairstow and Ali feasted as we bowled straighter and lost our control.