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England had given themselves an outstanding opportunity after four sessions of the first Test. At 65-1 in their second innings, the visitors had a lead of 105 runs.<\/p>\n
But England lost their last nine wickets for 99 runs, including a calamitous spell of 3-0 when all of Ollie Pope, Harry Brook and Joe Root were dismissed driving at the ball.<\/p>\n
The collapse has led to more questions of England’s attacking style. Though Stokes pointed to the aggression of Australia’s Travis Head, who made the second-fastest century in Ashes history to lead the home side to victory, the England skipper accepted his team could have been “a lot better”.<\/p>\n
“The important thing we need to do as a team and individuals is learn from it,” said Stokes. “We have identified those moments and spoken about them as a group.<\/p>\n
“In terms of execution, could we have been better at executing what we want to do? Definitely.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes when you go out there and make a decision, it doesn’t always pay off, or work the way you want it to. That’s the key for the rest of this tour, staying true to the beliefs of how we play our cricket, but also we do know we could have been a lot better in certain ways.”<\/p>\n
England had won only one of their 17 previous Tests when Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum took over the in 2022.<\/p>\n
The upturn in results and breathtaking style of cricket rebuilt a connection with supporters, a connection that has been tested in the past week. Many of those travelling to Perth spent vast sums of money, only to see England beaten in the first two-day Ashes Test for 104 years.<\/p>\n
“We know that there’ll be a lot of disappointed fans after that first defeat,” said Stokes. But it’s a five-game series, we’ve got four games to go.<\/p>\n
“We’ve lost the first one – we’re absolutely desperate to come home with that goal from before we started the series, which is to win the Ashes, and doing absolutely everything within our powers and using our time best to allow us to go out there and try and achieve that goal.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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