Stokes said he would have conversations with his players and believes they can come from 2-0 behind to win for the first time in an Ashes series.<\/p>\n
Their preparation for the highly anticipated contest has been questioned throughout, with England playing only one, intra-squad warm-up match before the series and skipping a pink-ball warm-up before the second Test.<\/p>\n
“We had five intense training sessions leading into this game,” McCullum told BBC Test Match Special.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes there is a tendency to overdo things to make up for it. If anything, we trained too much.<\/p>\n
“As we all know in this game it is played in the top two inches.”<\/p>\n
There are 10 days until the third Test begins in Adelaide on Wednesday, 17 December (23:30 GMT, 16 December) and they now head to Noosa, a resort town on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, for a four-day break away from cricket.<\/p>\n
England’s trip to Noosa was pre-planned. They will fly to Adelaide on Saturday and train on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. <\/p>\n
“We have been here for five weeks and it’s been pretty full-on on the field, off the field, and as physical as this game is, a huge part of it is the mental side,” said Stokes, who took a break from the game for his metal health in 2021.<\/p>\n
“I know what the game can do to you when the game is not feeling right or going well. Trust me when I say it is so important for teams, when they do get an occasion or an opportunity to be able to go away as a team – and almost put the pressures of this aside for a couple of days. <\/p>\n
“That doesn’t mean everything disappears and we don’t speak about what is going on, because those conversations are constantly happening.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stokes said he would have conversations with his players and believes they can come from 2-0 behind to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-303416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303416","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=303416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}