Ashes: Australia thrash England; skipper Stokes calls Oz player 'train'

England cricket skipper Ben Stokes expressed daze pursuing their decision to Australia successful the archetypal Ashes Test, emphasising the request for speedy betterment earlier their adjacent lucifer successful Brisbane. England missed their accidental to unafraid their archetypal Test triumph successful Australia successful 15 years, suffering a decision wrong 2 days astatine Perth Stadium.The English squad struggled against the bowling of Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland, portion Travis Head's awesome 123 runs led Australia to an eight-wicket victory."Little spot shell-shocked, it was beauteous phenomenal from Head," Stokes said. "It's beauteous raw, beauteous emotional, but that was immoderate knock. We tried 3 oregon 4 antithetic plans to get him, but erstwhile he's going similar a bid he's precise hard to stop."Stokes recovered immoderate encouraging aspects successful their performance, peculiarly noting their bowling successful the archetypal innings that restricted Australia to 132 runs."The mode successful which we bowled yesterday was phenomenal. A batch happened connected time one, a bully time for the bowlers," helium said. "It's a pugnacious 1 arsenic we felt we were successful control. We'll fto this descend in, but we've got 4 much games. It's a agelong clip earlier Brisbane, we'll spell distant and enactment successful the graft."The adjacent Test lucifer is scheduled to statesman connected December 4 successful Brisbane.With galore players experiencing their archetypal Ashes series, Stokes faces the situation of maintaining squad morale.

"Yeah, I deliberation we've got to fto that full 2 hours benignant of descend successful archetypal and bespeak connected it properly, without the emotion that's attached to what's conscionable gone connected there," helium said, referring to Head's knock. "Obviously there's disappointment erstwhile you travel disconnected the tract being connected the losing side. So that's up to myself. It's up to immoderate of the different elder guys who person a batch of acquisition successful large bid similar these due to the fact that you've got to fto emotions similar this descend in, and it has got to hurt. But besides you've past got to get escaped of them arsenic rapidly arsenic you perchance can, portion besides learning from it."Because erstwhile we get to Brisbane we request to beryllium backmost up to that mindset of however we came into this game, inactive precise assured of our abilities and achieving the goal. It's important astir not taking immoderate baggage from this effect into Brisbane."