Veteran England batter Ben Duckett is eager to show how important playing for England is to him after having a woeful Ashes campaign. Meanwhile, England have said that they are ready to adapt under coach Brendon McCullum, who remains in charge despite having a poor 4-1 series defeat in Australia marred by poor preparation and off-field incidents as well.

“I wasn’t proud of how things went in Australia,” Duckett said on Friday. “Hopefully, moving forward, we’ll just see over time how much playing for England means for us. This is not why I’ve done it but pulling out of the IPL, turning down a good chunk of money and missing the opportunity to play with and against some of the best players in the world to be here playing for Notts is a step in the right direction to show how much playing cricket for England means to me personally.”

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“I genuinely don’t know whether I’ll be in the England team for the first Test (against New Zealand at Lord’s on June 4), but I’ll do everything I can over the next four or five weeks to be in the best shape of my life,” he again shared.

However, Australia’s Travis Head, who scored over 600 runs in the Ashes series, including three tons, named the reaction to Duckett’s conduct in Noosa “a bit stiff”.

“If we were winning it probably wouldn’t have been news and nobody would have cared. If it had been Travis Head in that video, people are probably loving it. We were struggling as a side and I was struggling as a player so I shouldn’t have put myself in a position like that. That goes for any human being, let alone a professional sportsman. I think it’s no secret that we can definitely tighten up on some areas… and to be honest, I’m all for it,” Ben Duckett concluded.