{"id":755757,"date":"2026-08-31T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755757\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:34:09","slug":"england-not-going-to-ease-off-the-gas-with-3-0-pakistan-series-sweep-in-sight-england-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/755757\/","title":{"rendered":"England \u2018not going to ease off the gas\u2019 with 3-0 Pakistan series sweep in sight | England cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcus Trescothick is determined to sign off as England\u2019s interim head coach with a 100% record and has no plans to meddle with a winning formula in next week\u2019s final Test of the summer, despite securing the series win by beating Pakistan at Lord\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two successful games into a series, the most likely cause of a lineup change would be fatigue, but Pakistan have not forced England to toil unduly over their two wins \u2013 last summer the average India innings lasted 107.5 overs; this summer Pakistan\u2019s figure is 43.3. Meanwhile winning the second Test on day four means the players have nine clear days before action resumes at Edgbaston.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst and foremost I want to win the series 3-0, and if you\u2019re going to do that you want to play the most consistent team possible,\u201d Trescothick said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to see how they all pull up from this game, and they\u2019ve got four or five days now of break, which they\u2019ve not had for a good period of time because the schedule has been so busy. Once we know that we\u2019ll be able to make that decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made a big decision throughout the course of this season with the white-ball players to really ram home opportunities when you get the chance, and we want to try to continue that. So it\u2019s not a case of we\u2019re going to ease off the gas. We want to go there and win the series 3-0, and that is exactly what I\u2019ll be telling the players when we\u2019re prepping, [to keep] the hunger and desire to keep driving forward even when you\u2019ve had success.\u201d<\/p>\n

While England wrapped up victory in the opening Test inside three days<\/a>, and Lord\u2019s underlined its recent reputation as a difficult ground for batting<\/a>, they will remember that their last visit to Edgbaston followed a different script. Last summer India scored 1014 runs there, the most by any touring team in any Test in this country<\/a> since Australia ran amok at the Oval in 1934, with Bill Ponsford getting 266 and Don Bradman 244 in their first innings on their way to an aggregate of 1028.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the XI we wanted for that [Lord\u2019s] pitch, but that\u2019s always the beauty of having a squad \u2013 that you can chop and change. Horses for courses, if you want to put it that way,\u201d Trescothick said. \u201cI think we\u2019ll see once we get up there and know what the pitch is going to be like. I\u2019m expecting it to be different to the conditions we\u2019ve had in the last two games \u2013 as we\u2019ve seen when we played India last summer, it was a pitch for many more runs. Once we get a bit more information on the lads and then see the conditions, then we can make better decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcus Trescothick watches the second Test at Edgbaston alongside captain Joe Root. He wants the squad \u2018to keep driving forward\u2019. Photograph: Ben Whitley\/PA<\/p>\n

England\u2019s four-pronged seam attack of Ollie Robinson, Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue and Gus Atkinson have impressed in the last two games, and Trescothick believes they will become more potent with more time spent playing together. \u201cI think we\u2019re building an attack in four people, and a few guys backing it up, with pace and skill around it,\u201d he said. \u201cThe more Test matches they all gain together, the better opportunity we\u2019ve got when you go to more challenging conditions, and away from home in particular. No doubt next summer when we come back here for the Ashes they\u2019ll be in a much better position than what they\u2019ve been for the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve a good contrast in what we\u2019re trying to do at the moment. What we have is three guys bowling at 92mph, which is really nice to have in your armoury. And the more they play together, and the more experience everyone gets together, then it sort of fits into place how you want it to be. I\u2019m enjoying the fact that we\u2019ve got four who are match-fit at the moment, and a few behind it that we\u2019re starting to get ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Trescothick is determined to sign off as England\u2019s interim head coach with a 100% record and has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-755757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755757","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=755757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}