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The Ashes | Both the energy and mood in England camp is low, says Stuart Broad

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England fast bowler Stuart Broad admitted that the mood in the English camp is quite low after the side lost all the three games in the Ashes series so far. The right-arm bowler further added that this Australian side is a good team but “not the best” that they have played. 

“Part of the reason things feel so down within our camp is that while Australia are a good cricket team, they are not the best we have faced here and I still feel that, without Covid, an opportunity existed to do something special,” Broad wrote in a column for The Daily Mail.

“Both the energy and the mood in the camp is low,” Broad wrote.

Mentioning about his future, Broad wrote that he isn’t someone who would take decisions emotionally and added that he is pretty fit. 

“There is a long time between now and the tour of the Caribbean in March and I have never been one to make emotional decisions. So I’m not going to make any spur-of-the-moment calls on my future. I feel fit, I’ve come back from the calf injury feeling strong and I’m taking wickets in the nets. That’s all I can do given the lack of tour games and the tight schedule,” he wrote. 

Australia have taken an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series while the penultimate clash is scheduled to take place in Sydney from January 5, 2022. 

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