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<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to be another Nasser Hussain.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the days after England\u2019s thumping in Brisbane, which left them 2-0 down with three matches remaining, Hussain has been critical of Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are not thinking smart. They are not thinking straight under pressure,\u201d Hussain wrote in The Athletic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first sign of insanity is doing the same things and expecting different results, and England cannot afford that now.<\/p>\n
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Ben Stokes bowls during training at the Adelaide Oval.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cStokes and McCullum have been backing their players since 2022, but now it\u2019s time for all of them to take individual responsibility. The captain and the coach\u2019s necks are on the line. They have to be hard-nosed.\u201d<\/p>\n
England\u2019s spearhead Jofra Archer will reignite his battle with Steve Smith after their late-match exchange during Australia\u2019s win in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
After Smith sledged Archer for only bowling fast when \u201cthere\u2019s nothing going on, champion\u201d, Stokes has vowed England will be prepared to stir up Australia\u2019s batsmen if the situation demands it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to seeing what this week brings,\u201d Stokes said. \u201cIf a moment arises where we feel like we might need to get a little bit niggly like that, then I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll happen, and we\u2019ll have to jump on the back of those moments as a team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s making sure that the mind doesn\u2019t go solely on creating something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Australian team of 1936-37 remains the only side in Ashes history to come from 2-0 down and win a five-match series. After what Stokes described as honest conversations and several days of sunshine and bonding in Noosa, the England captain believes his side can create history with an unchanged top seven from Brisbane.<\/p>\n
The only change to England\u2019s XI is paceman Josh Tongue replacing Gus Atkinson, with spinner Shoaib Bashir again overlooked in favour of all-rounder Will Jacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know what it\u2019s like to be in this situation before,\u201d Stokes said, referencing the 2023 Ashes when England trailed 2-0 before forcing a 2-2 result.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anything, it actually makes everything look more simple and a little bit more clear for us. I\u2019ve got the full [faith] we can do this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t want to be another Nasser Hussain.\u201d In the days after England\u2019s thumping in Brisbane, which left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-351760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}