Andrew Starauss revealed about Ashes celebrations that he has warned his players ended the day in Cardiff and work is behind.Although today the first time in January, England's Test team heady days of the ancient white Sydney has been on display will be the captain insisted it is a homecoming parade.
Strauss and Andy Flower on their paymasters of the ECB made it clear that summer against Sri Lanka first Test match neither the time nor the place was reminisce about winter.
Instead, their entire focus is team and the next level by becoming the world's No.1.
And ease of Sri Lanka will take them a little closer to winning the No.2 South Africa leapfrogging.
Strauss said, “To be honest it is not a homecoming. If we were going to have a homecoming that would have taken place a long time ago. This is the start of a new cycle in a way.
“It is start of a very busy and difficult summer for us and it is obviously hopefully an opportunity for us to make a step forward to becoming No.1 in the world.
“That excites us and I think for us to be thinking too much back to what happened in Sydney at this stage is not helpful.”
It is unlikely his team won their feet off the gas will now take any of Ashes and there after that and move upwards by about players is positive. But it is only the first was on the other side are for.
Strauss and flowers for the challenge of ensuring that players or not they mean the same heights he had only six months ago that has continued to kill.
Strauss added, “The key is to get to No.1. We are some way off that and it might take us a long time to get there and certainly if we drift into the summer and don’t hit top gear straight away that could seem like a long way off.
“I will be very disappointed if any of the players are resting on laurels or anything like that. We need to hit ground running. We have got to learn lessons from what we did well in Australia and put those into practice again but our goals have shifted completely now.”
This time to encourage Strauss heard that Kevin Pietersen as their best for England once again set about to find out what was said.
Strauss in his recent book on the pop psychology Patterson tried a hand like a need to clear about, but captain on that pair recently spoke on the border and look forward to the England of Was on page.
He said: “KP just seems to be in a really good place mentally and he’s determined to enjoy his cricket.
“I like the fact that when he has that relaxed air about him plus that inner drive, that’s a good recipe for him to have a really good summer.”
