England 'hurting' after Rajkot defeat

Coach Brendon McCullum says England are "hurting" after their massive defeat by India, but have "no regrets".

England have enjoyed great success under McCullum and captain Ben Stokes, with a swashbuckling brand of cricket earning 14 wins from 20 Tests prior to Rajkot. "People are entitled to their opinion, good, bad or ugly," said the former New Zealand captain. "It's up to us whether we want to listen to it or not.

"We're obviously not totally screwed down on the method yet. There will be times when we don't quite get it right because it's a hard way to play. It's asking guys to take the game on and sometimes we have to deal with failure. Debate has centred on whether Root, England's second-highest run-scorer in Test cricket, is being hampered by trying to play too aggressively.However, it is down on the 54.36 Root was averaging in the 20 Tests before McCullum took over, when the former captain was in the best form of his career, scoring eight hundreds in that period.

"Do we want just a normal Joe Root, or do we want an even better Joe Root? How many games are we going to win if that happens."

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