In addition, the Lions match would have offered time using the pink ball, with England due to play a rare day-night Test at Brisbane’s Gabba.<\/p>\n
England have lost five of their seven previous day-nighters, while Australia have won 13 from 14. In pace bowler Mitchell Starc, who took 10 wickets in Perth, Australia have the best pink-ball bowler in the world.<\/p>\n
Of England’s likely XI in Brisbane, wicketkeeper Jamie Smith and pace bowler Gus Atkinson have never played a first-class match with a pink ball, while Brydon Carse has played only one.<\/p>\n
Asked after the first Test if England would alter their plans and send players to Canberra, Stokes was adamant they would not.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been asked this question a lot, that’s how it was done a long time ago,” he told Test Match Special. “We prepare incredibly well and work incredibly hard every day we get the opportunity to work on our game.<\/p>\n
“We’ve operated in this way, where we know that the preparation we put in is correct in the way it works for us.”<\/p>\n
Coach McCullum appeared to leave the door open when he said: “We’ve just got to work out what the pros and cons are. We’re not married to any position at the moment, but we’ll work it out in a couple of days.”<\/p>\n
McCullum added he was “sure” a batter could play in Canberra if he wanted to.<\/p>\n
England will travel to Brisbane on Wednesday and are not scheduled to train until Monday. There is the possibility of an extra training session on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Saturday, former captain Michael Vaughan said it would be “amateurish” to pass up the opportunity to play in Canberra.<\/p>\n
“What harm is it playing two days of cricket with the pink ball under lights?” Vaughan told the Test Match Special podcast.<\/p>\n
“I can’t be so old school to suggest that by playing cricket they might get a little bit better?<\/p>\n
“My method would be, you’ve got a pink-ball two-day game, you go and grab it, go and take it, play those two days and give yourself the best chance.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition, the Lions match would have offered time using the pink ball, with England due to play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-280417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}