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New Delhi: England coach Brendon McCullum is convinced his team doesn’t need change in personnel and approach for the third Ashes Test despite going down in the first two match of the five-game series.
England have been criticised for their ultra aggressive batting approach as they slumped to by eight wickets in two days in Perth, and four days in Brisbane.
Another defeat in the third Test that begins on Wednesday would not only end hopes of winning back the Ashes but open up a real possibility of a humiliating 5-0 whitewash.
"We came here with high hopes and high expectations. We had a plan that we felt was going to give ourselves the best chance of being successful," McCullum said at Adelaide Oval on Sunday.
"We haven't quite executed that so far, and Australia has seized those key moments and hence they sit 2-0 up.
"It doesn't mean that we throw that plan out. We just need to chisel away at some of the things we haven't got quite right and make sure that we still have that conviction of what we're trying to achieve.
"I think these conditions should suit our style a little bit better as well... this is probably more attuned to our best style of cricket."
Most of England's batters haven’t got going yet in the series but McCullum disagreed that the team need wholesale changes to the line-up and claimed to have no worries about his job.
"We've had a top seven now for a period of time, and we've been reasonably successful with it," he said.
"We know we haven't got enough runs so far in the series... but for us to go on and win the series, it's not about throwing out what's been successful.
"It's about having more conviction. It's about making sure that we have our plans and our disciplines around it. Just screw it down a touch more. Knee-jerk reactions and chopping and changing settled batting line-ups is not really our thing."
"You do the job to the best of your ability. You have conviction in what you're doing, and whatever happens, happens," he contunied.
"I certainly don't coach to protect a job. I coach to get the best out of people ... and that won't be changing this week, just because the prize is at its highest.
"I firmly believe if we play our best cricket, we're a massive chance in this test match. If we do that, then the narrative changes, the series momentum changes."
