00:00With England 2-0 down in the series, naturally, the first question to the England camp asked
00:06about the mood, which Adil Rashid maintained was still positive despite the losses.
00:13The mood's still quite good, you know, we're still positive. We know we're coming up against
00:17a very strong Australian side who's in great form at the moment. And we know we've got
00:21to win, so we've got to make sure we come, we win our A game in both departments, bat
00:25and ball, and also in the field. And if we put that together, hopefully we can get a
00:30England have a young cohort, with Rashid then asked how their development is progressing.
00:36Yeah, obviously we are developing with new players, new players coming in, so it is,
00:39like I say, a different process now, rebuilding. But we've still got to believe in ourselves
00:43that we can beat any team in the world, whether it's Australia or India, whoever, we still
00:47have that belief that we can come up, we play the way we play, we know we can beat any team.
00:51But at this moment in time, yes, we're looking to still rebuild and hopefully hit some form
00:55as well along the way.
00:57This may not be an Ashes series, but Rashid highlighted that the rivalry with Australia
01:02will always be there.
01:03Every time we play against Australia, it's always a rivalry, but in a good way. It's
01:07always that real competition. We always do well against Australia in any form, whether
01:12it's Test, ODI, T20, something similar here. We've got to have that spirit as well, we've
01:17got to have that positivity going forward in any form, whether it's ODI or T20.
01:21Finally, Rashid recently became the first England player to take 200 ODI wickets. He
01:26reflected on that achievement.
01:27Yeah, obviously it's a nice achievement, but for myself, I don't really look at them achievements
01:31in that depth. I still believe that hopefully for myself, there's still a long way to go
01:34as opposed to just being happy with what I've got. I'm still looking to strive as an individual,
01:39but also as a team. We're looking to win tournaments, win series, win the World Cup, so that's my
01:44ultimate aim. But to have that 200 is a nice milestone, but hopefully I can carry on.
01:49From an Australian perspective, Aaron Hardy spoke of how strong their line-up is when
01:54it came to forcing his way into the side, given that Australia are current ODI World
01:59Champions.
02:00Yeah, I think the emphasis on just being flexible, being adaptable. Obviously, there's so many
02:01players that have cemented their spots, you've got Hedy at the top, Mitch through the middle,
02:02and you've got Simeon Flanders-Shane, so it's just about filling the role when they pop
02:03up, and yeah, we know it's a big battle, it's about just being able to stay adaptable and
02:04jump up and down the order and try to contribute wherever possible.
02:05As an all-rounder, Hardy then spoke about working on his batting skills.
02:29Yeah, I put a lot more time into my batting, definitely. I think that's just the nature
02:33of it. Bowling, you're sometimes a bit limited in the amount of training you can do, so yeah,
02:39I love batting up the order, but certainly aware that you have to earn your stripes as
02:44a batsman a bit, and sometimes spots pop up as a bowler a little bit more often, just
02:50the nature of the beast. So, I've done it my whole life, sort of starting the teams
02:55down the order a bit and then eventually working my way up, so hopefully I can do that as well.
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