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Captain says his dressing room ‘isn’t a place for weak men’
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Coach McCullum says England were ‘overprepared’
Ben Stokes has admitted that the way England have folded in key moments during the first two Ashes Tests has led him to question the character of his players, and said: “A dressing room that I am captain of isn’t a place for weak men.”
After Australia won the second Test in Brisbane by the same eight-wicket margin with which they secured the first, Stokes suggested the telling difference was that the home side had been superior in the “moments in the game where the heat is on and the pressure is really, really cooking” whereas his players “have all been guilty at moments [of] letting the pressure, the occasion, the circumstances, get to us”.
Written by Simon Burnton at the Gabba
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/07/ben-stokes-england-pressure-ashes-australia-cricket under the title “Ben Stokes says England have been ‘letting the pressure get to us’ in Ashes”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
