Ben Stokes: There is no room for weak men in Australia or my dressing room

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Beaten captain Ben Stokes has made it clear there is no room for “weak men” on England’s faltering Ashes tour.Stokes’ side are 2-0 down with three to play after another deeply flawed performance in Brisbane and find themselves up against it on one of cricket’s most fierce trips.Coming off the back of a two-day thrashing in Perth, there are serious question marks over the ability of his England team to react to the big occasion and time is running out for them to find an appropriate answer.

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00:00You know, the saying that teams who come to Australia can't be soft or weak, whatever

00:14it may be, because that's how it is out here. It's a tough place to come. You can't come

00:17to Australia and be weak, but you also can't be in my dressing room if you are. There is

00:26none of that. We pick people on ability and skill, but we also pick people on character

00:31and mentality. So a few things that obviously need to be addressed when I think on that,

00:37but I know deep down that we've got characters who I know that can stand up to what we've

00:43got to do over the next three games.

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