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Some of the Ashes criticism centered around the squad’s relationship with alcohol after their mid-series trip to Noosa.<\/p>\n
It also emerged after the Ashes that white-ball captain Harry Brook had an altercation with a nightclub bouncer during a trip to New Zealand last year.<\/p>\n
Stokes said some criticism was “harsh and unneeded”, but “a lot of it was warranted”.<\/p>\n
“A lot of it was almost put forward in a way that was a bit extreme, but when you look at it deep deep deep you agree with some of it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We have got ourselves to blame for a lot of it.<\/p>\n
“If you can’t take that and aren’t willing to understand that and listen to a little bit of it, then we wouldn’t see any progression.”<\/p>\n
Stokes, McCullum and managing director Rob Key kept their jobs following an ECB review into the Ashes.<\/p>\n
Stokes, who turns 35 on the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand on 4 June, said he did not consider standing down or retiring.<\/p>\n
“I actually went the other way,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It completely and utterly consumed me. I feel like I would be able to switch off for half an hour and then would get my iPad out and start making notes.<\/p>\n
“If I got back and shut myself away, didn’t pay any interest and say ‘we will see what happens – I will let other people make decisions’, I think that is me subconsciously saying I don’t want this.<\/p>\n
“How I was proved I am proper in this still.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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