Strauss: Lessons must be learned
"Part of giving the players responsibility is that there are no excuses when we do badly," explained Andrew Strauss. "We can't blame the coaches, we can't blame anyone other than ourselves and we each have an individual responsibility to make sure we don't make those mistakes again."
He added: "This is where that system should work. If people have pride in their performances, which I am absolutely certain they do, and I'm very certain that they'll come back and play a lot better on Sunday."
"We all made the same mistakes so there wasn't enough thought there and we have to ask ourselves individually why there wasn't enough thought. The crucial thing is to learn your lessons and if we're honest with ourselves we've done that sort of thing batting wise too often.
"What is very frustrating is if we keep making the same mistakes. Losing early wickets is not the way to win one-day internationals and we've done that too often.
"We've all got to hold our hands up and say that wasn't good enough and remember we're representing our country and we have an obligation to play better than that."
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