England head coach Brendon McCullum, left, and Harry Brook (AP)
The series gets underway on November 13 and will serve as an important part of their preparations for next year’s ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, according to the ICC website. They should hold you in good stead in 12 months. These guys haven’t played a lot of one-day cricket, so any opportunity to get experience and education, and those pressure moments, so that you can start to just understand a little bit better, it’s going to be good,” he added.
We’ll play at some great stadiums, against a good side, and continue to test our methods, towards the one-day World Cup,” McCullum said. With the view towards the World Cup, the ability to be able to bounce between games, and different tactics, and different oppositions was good,” McCullum said. England head coach Brendon McCullum is hoping his team can turn the disappointment of their recent ODI tri-series campaign in Pakistan into valuable lessons as they prepare for a challenging white-ball tour of Australia. However, McCullum is keen to look forward rather than dwell on the past, viewing the upcoming contests as an opportunity to assess his team’s progress and methods. “Firstly, it’s nice to be back. An Australia tour is always a great tour. The cricket’s always pretty competitive. There were, however, encouraging individual performances. Captain Harry Brook and opener Ben Duckett impressed with the bat, while Liam Dawson, Sonny Baker and Jamie Overton contributed with the ball. Despite falling short of their target, McCullum believes the tournament offered important exposure, particularly for a relatively inexperienced squad that needs more time in one-day cricket. “It was disappointing. Obviously, it was great to play in the tri-series. “We obviously didn’t quite achieve what we wanted to, but we played some really good cricket and learned some great lessons. We’ve got a pretty inexperienced team.
The tour also marks England’s return to Australia following their disappointing Ashes campaign earlier this year. England arrived in Perth on Monday for an eight-match assignment against Australia, featuring three ODIs and five T20Is.