Skipper Andrew Strauss has blamed his batsmen for the series loss to Australia saying they were not ''smart enough as a batting unit''. England embarked on their Australian tour successfully and won the Ashes but failed to retain that form in the one-day internationals, conceding a decisive 4-1 lead in the seven-match series after a 51-run loss in the fifth game at the Gabba in Brisbane.
''One of the improvements we have made in one-day cricket over the past 12 or 18 months was a lot of our batsmen getting bigger scores more consistently, but we've fallen into bad habits in this series,'' Strauss was quoted as saying by 'The Guardian'.
''Twenties and thirties and soft dismissals, that has been plaguing us all the way through this series and ultimately that is what has lost us the series.
''Our decision-making has been not very good on these wickets.
In one-day cricket you have got to decide when is the right time to attack (and) who is the right bowler to attack. We just have not done that well enough. We have not been smart enough as a batting unit. There has been a lot of talking but talking does not bring results - guys have to bring it to the middle,'' he said.
''We cannot hide away from it, we have got to take it on the chin, accept it and try and remedy it for these last two games and try and get some momentum heading into the World Cup,'' he added.
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