We need to learn from our defeats: Strauss

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We need to learn from our defeats: Strauss

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Strauss has thoroughly analysed the reasons behind his team's defeats.

02 February,2012 10:06 pm

England skipper Andrew Strauss wants to use the series defeat against Pakistan as a learning curve and go on to do well in the third Test at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium commencing today.Were very clear in our own minds that you got to use losses and tough times as a basis of learning and moving on and I think we have learnt a lot already and that learning will stand us in good stead both in this Test match and in the future as well, said Strauss, who went on to explain how gloomy it was for the team after the second Test defeat and how they have managed to overcome it.In the first 24 hours after the second game its obviously fairly bleak mood in the dressing room and rightly so because we felt we should have won that game, but then things pretty quickly start turning to OK well thats gone what can we do now going forward. We had quite a few chats about us moving forward in the medium and long term not just in the short term for this game as well. So theres a real kind of will and desire and motivation on behalf of the guys to push forward and keep improving, which is obviously crucial, he said.When asked what has his team done in the last few days to avoid a repeat of such a performance, Strauss said: One of the things that you always do after losing is try and step back and just try and look at things. There are some areas where we need to work on a little bit. Weve changed our net sessions a little bit allowing people to do what individually they feel to work on. Were not talking about massive changes or technique or anything like that, its always important against spin because in some ways it is important you are pro-active rather than reacting to the ball that comes down. You need to know what your game is in order to do that.Strauss has also thoroughly analysed the reasons behind his teams defeats and candidly admitted that some of his players are out of form. We had very good reason to think we could win out here. Our bowlers had done really well. We got ourselves into a situation when we were chasing 140 to win the second Test we should have done that.