• Captain says his dressing room ‘isn’t a place for weak men’

• Coach McCullum says England ‘overprepared’

Ben Stokes has admitted that the way England have folded in key moments during the first two Ashes Tests has led him to question the character of his players, and insisted: “A dressing room that I am captain of isn’t a place for weak men.”

After Australia won the second Test in Brisbane by the same eight-wicket margin with which they secured the first , Stokes suggested the telling difference was that the home side had been superior in the “moments in the game where the heat is on and the pressure is really, really cooking” whereas his players “have all been guilty at moments [of] letting the pressure, the occasion, the circumstances, get to us”.

• Captain says his dressing room ‘isn’t a place for weak men’

• Coach McCullum says England ‘overprepared’

Ben Stokes has admitted that the way England have folded in key moments during the first two Ashes Tests has led him to question the character of his players, and insisted: “A dressing room that I am captain of isn’t a place for weak men.”

After Australia won the second Test in Brisbane by the same eight-wicket margin with which they secured the first , Stokes suggested the telling difference was that the home side had been superior in the “moments in the game where the heat is on and the pressure is really, really cooking” whereas his players “have all been guilty at moments [of] letting the pressure, the occasion, the circumstances, get to us”.

• Captain says his dressing room ‘isn’t a place for weak men’

• Coach McCullum says England ‘overprepared’

Ben Stokes has admitted that the way England have folded in key moments during the first two Ashes Tests has led him to question the character of his players, and insisted: “A dressing room that I am captain of isn’t a place for weak men.”

After Australia won the second Test in Brisbane by the same eight-wicket margin with which they secured the first , Stokes suggested the telling difference was that the home side had been superior in the “moments in the game where the heat is on and the pressure is really, really cooking” whereas his players “have all been guilty at moments [of] letting the pressure, the occasion, the circumstances, get to us”.