Strauss: England should play attacking and positive cricket
England’s Captain, Andrew Strauss has said that he wants England to play positive, aggressive and attacking cricket. The current one day series has not been an ideal one for the English team as they have consecutively lost three one day matches of the series
and somehow have failed to carry the momentum which they had gained from the Ashes series. England went into the seven Match one day series with a lot of confidence but so far most of their players have not delivered a good performance in the series and have
failed to lift their game to a high level in the one day series.
It may be that English team got a bit over confident from their comprehensive ashes victory and somehow expected the Aussies to again lay low for the one day series. Andrew Strauss realizes the importance of a Captain’s comments at this stage and has highlighted
the point that it’s not the time to panic for the English team.
Andrew Strauss further said that there are couple of guys in the English team who are not in brilliant form at the moment but he also said that this factor can change pretty quickly. There are number of players in the English one day side who are not in
the best touch and have struggled to perform their best in the first three one day matches.
Paul Collingwood is the best example of such player as he has struggled to make some decent totals in the series and there are still some hopes from the English side that he would return to his best in future. Andrew Strauss further said that this is the
high time that one should have confidence in players rather damaging their confidence even further.
This is the basic difference in the psyche of the Australian cricket team and the English one, as when the Australian cricket team was having a bad time they usually criticized their players and rarely highlighted the need of boosting the confidence of players
in troubled times.
But English players have more faith in themselves and believe in the psyche of motivation to a great deal. Andrew Strauss further highlighted this point that the Australian bowlers were quite impressive in the third one day match. He further said that English
side has not been that smart as they should have been and he urged his team to improve in the future.
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