Jonathan Agnew

inform we've talked about the need for getting

players who are out of form in the test team, back in form by playing some games.

You're on a cricket tour.

There's a clue in the actual title of it.

And so to say that this was some sort of break, oh, we didn't know what to do.

So, well, we played golf.

Listen to trotting off the golf and that stuff.

You know, it sounds terribly old fashioned to expect cricketers to play cricket.

But, you know, where is your mind?

Where are you psychologically when you're away from home on a cricket tour,

If you're not playing cricket, you're there to play cricket.

That's the reason for you being there.

And that is what trains the mind.

I think you're under more pressure if you know you're out of form.

You haven't scored any runs and you're about to face Mitchell Stark again in five days' time, having not faced him since the last time he knocked your middle pole out.

That's more pressure than going out and playing a game of cricket, getting 50, 60, 70 runs, winning a game.

That would be nice, wouldn't it?

England to go out and play a first-class game or whoever it is and winning.

That's what takes pressure off, not hacking around a golf course or sinking pints in Noosa.

I don't understand the thought process behind that.