Carefree England shrug off defeats but lack of competition for batters is stark | Simon Burnton
Briefly

"It's about mindset... players who feel 10ft tall and bulletproof when they go out to play... These guys are able to play the game a lot better than perhaps we could ourselves."
"When Ben Stokes said that there were many times in the last two Tests you would argue we were in front of the game and we let that slip... this was the one above all others, the moment victory was within their grasp."
"As it all fell apart across Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, there were times when England seemed to be batting as if the outcome, individually and collectively, didn't really matter."
"In the end they were much better than us in these conditions, McCullum summarised, approximating the sound of a shrug."
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