Former England cricketer Steve Harminson made a strong criticism of the England cricket team for skipping practice session before their all-important One Day International on Sunday at Cuttack. 

India had a long training session but the Jos Buttler-led side opted not to train. England have lost the T-20I series 4-1 and were handed a four-wicket loss in the first one-day international in Nagpur.

 “Sometimes it can be counterproductive when you keep getting beat or things aren’t going as well as you’d want. Sometimes it is a good thing to get away from it, but like I’ve said in previous podcasts, how England have lost, I struggle to understand, especially with the Champions Trophy coming up, that you just have a complete day off, ” clarified Harmison while speaking to TalkSport Cricket.

Steve Harmison further revealed a change in the new England Team under head coach Brendan McCullum. He claimed that England now no longer does compulsory team practices. He, however, claimed that if the new system is good enough then there is no need to alter the same.

“A compulsory one, England don't do compulsory practices under Brendon McCullum. It's them that want to work on their game, they go and work on their game.”

"And I mean, what have we had? In the series so far, we've had five T20s and an ODI. It's had 340 overs, combined overs, and I mean, that's probably a full test match, three and three-quarters of a day of a Test match," he added.

 Harmison concluded, “Where England are with a week or two weeks to go before a Champions Trophy, number 11's has batted six times in six white-ball games, five of them in T20s. Something's not right. Something needs addressing and people lying in their rooms, playing on a golf course, sitting playing on a PlayStation, possibly lying by a pool.”