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England coach Brendon McCullum says an incident between a member of the tourists\u2019 security staff and a TV cameraman was \u201cnot ideal\u201d as he praised his side for dealing with off-field \u201chostility\u201d in Australia<\/p>\n
Ollie Pope fell to two maddening dismissals in the pink-ball game at The Gabba in the second Test – chopping on to his stumps playing with an angled bat in the first innings and then caught and bowled attempting an unwise drive in the second – but the No 3 retains his place ahead of Jacob Bethell.<\/p>\n
Only Joe Root is averaging over 30 after the first two Ashes Tests, but McCullum said: “These conditions [in Adelaide] should suit the style of batters that we’ve got.<\/p>\n
“We know we haven’t got enough runs so far in this series. We’ve been in positions where we could have and made some mistakes.<\/p>\n
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Speaking on the Sky Sports Cricket podcast, Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton debate Brendon McCullum’s ‘overprepared’ claim as England head into a crucial third Test against Australia in Adelaide<\/p>\n
“But it’s not about throwing out what has been successful for us over the last few years. It’s about having more conviction.<\/p>\n
“Knee-jerk reactions or chopping and changing settled batting line-ups is not really our way.”<\/p>\n
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This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> Tributes paid to Bondi Beach terror attack victims<\/p>\n Following training at the Adelaide Oval on Monday, Australia and England players both paid tributes to the victims of Sunday’s terror attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney, in which 15 people died.<\/p>\n England are due to visit Sydney at the start of January for the fifth Ashes Test and issued a statement of support following the attack.<\/p>\n Australia spinner Nathan Lyon and England vice-captain Harry Brool have paid tribute to the Bondi Beach terror attack victims<\/p>\n “Everyone in the England Cricket team is deeply saddened by the horrific events at Bondi Beach yesterday evening,” it read.<\/p>\n “Our thoughts are with the victims, their families and friends at this deeply distressing time. We stand alongside the people of Sydney, the Jewish community and our heartfelt condolences go to all those affected.”<\/p>\n England vice-captain Harry Brook added: “It was a horrendous day for everybody involved on Bondi Beach. We are really thinking about them and the horrific incidents that happened.<\/p>\n “We support them all the way through and we’re just extremely sorry for what happened.”<\/p>\n Australia spinner Nathan Lyon added: “We’re extremely saddened. A horrific day for everyone involved and we stand by them. Our thoughts and prayers are with them, we’re thinking of them and hopefully they can get through this.”<\/p>\n Ashes series in Australia 2025-26<\/p>\n Australia lead five-match series 2-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have made one change to their line-up for the crucial third Ashes Test, with Josh Tongue replacing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-317175","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\/317175","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=317175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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