England fast bowler Mark Wood has said that the team cannot afford to stick to their horrid tour of India heading into the crucial Champions Trophy 2025. However, they have only won one match in the subcontinent out of seven outings so far across formats, and have already lost the ODI series with a game to spare as well.

“It has obviously been challenging but there’s been loads to learn and I feel like this experience will be good in the long-term going into the Champions Trophy. It’s very easy to look at this and say we’re not performing well because we’re losing games but the 2019 World Cup-winning team, we didn’t win very much here. This is as tough as it comes to win away,” Mark Wood told the PA News Agency (via The Independent).

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“When we go into the Champions Trophy, we play against other nations where we’re both in foreign conditions and things might change there. We’ve lost this series but when we get to the Champions Trophy, this cannot linger on us. We’ve got to get used to tournament cricket, it’s a totally different feeling, don’t carry any baggage from here,” he further added.

The third ODI between India and England is slated for Wednesday, February 12, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad as well.

“Results aside, we’re trying to learn from what India are doing well. We’re always trying to learn in these conditions and how we can take this into the Champions Trophy,” Mark Wood concluded.