England not mentally equipped for ODIs
England's 1-6 embarrassment against Australia in the recent ODI series was a reflection of their inability to think on their feet, a consquence of a lack of intensity in county cricket and ordinary bowling and fielding, writes Derek Pringle in the
England’s batsmen possess talent but appear to lack the guile required to apply it to the rapidly evolving situations you get in one-day cricket. In his book, Duncan Fletcher, England’s former coach, lamented his charges’ inability to think on their feet during matches. Test cricket’s less frenetic pace allows for a more methodical approach and has natural breaks where tactics can be rethought and re-jigged, which helps explain the marked disparity in England’s results over the short and long forms of the game.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo