'Will have beer tonight': ENG coach blames 'too much training' for Ashes defeat

England caput manager Brendon McCullum said his squad "trained excessively much" successful the build-up to their dense decision successful the 2nd Ashes Test successful Brisbane connected Sunday. England’s mentation for the bid has been questioned, particularly their determination to play 3 days of intra-squad warm-up cricket astatine Lilac Hill connected a transportation that did not lucifer the conditions astatine the Perth Stadium.After the archetypal Test ended successful 2 days, England did not nonstop immoderate players to the pink-ball Prime Minister’s XI lucifer successful Canberra. They had not played a day/night Test since aboriginal 2023, and 3 players successful the existent XI had ne'er played 1 before. Among them was wicketkeeper Jamie Smith, who dropped an important catch. England alternatively went to Brisbane and trained for 5 days, adding 2 other signifier sessions.

England went 2-0 down successful the five-match bid after different dense nonaccomplishment to Australia astatine the Gabba connected Sunday."If anything, we trained excessively much," McCullum said successful 2 abstracted interviews to 7cricket and BBC.

"We had 5 to 10 grooming league starring into this game."

"That’s thing arsenic a manager you person to beryllium alert of. Sometimes determination is simply a inclination to overdo things to marque up for it," helium said to BBC.McCullum besides said, "As we each know, successful this crippled it is played successful the apical 2 inches. We each person to find mode that we guarantee that we consciousness prepared physically, technically and we are acceptable for the battle, but besides to marque definite we are caller and marque definite we tin marque those decisions successful the vigor of the games."

"We volition person a brew tonight. I deliberation starring into this Test lucifer I really felt similar we overprepared to beryllium honest," McCullum told 7Cricket.He acknowledged England’s conflict to set to conditions aft Australia bowled them retired for 241 successful their 2nd innings of the day-night Test. "We person got immoderate enactment to do. We person immoderate time. We person been present earlier and determination is nary constituent feeling atrocious for yourself. You prime yourself up and you spell again," helium said."We weren't astatine our best. To bushed Australia successful Australia, you person to beryllium astatine your champion crossed each 3 disciplines and we weren't. That is brutal honesty and we volition deterioration that. From our constituent of view, we cognize we person to beryllium better. We person to beryllium a batch quicker to accommodate to the conditions successful Adelaide. I thought we were a spot dilatory to accommodate to the conditions here."