Ben Stokes
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Yeah, obviously disappointed to come off.
Yeah, I've been pretty hard for the series, put a lot of effort into the series before I was able to go off.
But yeah, again, we should have got 100 more.
They shouldn't have got an extra 100 and that's pretty much the whole series really.
The time that we've got off after this is a time for reflection and time for some pretty honest truths because it needs to happen and those kind of things need to be said or else you just end up standing still.
And we always talk about wanting to move forward, press on as a team, press on as individuals.
And I think the series has highlighted that there is a lot of room for improvement for
It's one of those where I feel like we play a lot of 3 out of 10 cricket in terms of coming off, if that makes sense.
When you play consistently at that level, it's going to be very hard to be winning games of cricket.
Why is this person coming to bowl?
Why are they bowling at these tactics to us when you're working as a partnership out there?
And yeah, it's about being smarter, being clever, identifying those moments and actually understanding as to why oppositions are doing this to us.
Whereas now it's about recalibrating that.
Putting a bit more pressure on everyone's shoulders and making sure, you know, batting's about scoring runs, bowling's about taking wickets and playing sport is about winning.
I think firstly focusing on this game.
I thought it was a brilliant cricket wicket.
It was an excellent game.
There was a lot in it for everyone.
There was a bit of seam movement early and then it was pretty good for batting for the most part.
And then spin played a part towards the end.