Baz Puts English Team Through Gruelling Sun Baking Sessions At Noosa In Preparation For Adelaide

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The high-flying English Cricket team are today doing everything they can to keep the good times going.

After 5 and a half days of Test Match cricket over the last month or so, Brendon 'Baz' McCullum and his captain Ben Stokes have decided to up the ante.

With big chunks of down time between games to prepare for an Ashes on Australian soil, the Poms have been maintaining a strict GTL (Gym, Tan, Laundry) regime.

Fresh off the back of snubbing a tour game before being severely trounced in Brisbane, Baz confirmed that now they are going all out, with a bunch of sun baking sessions in Noosa, before the 3rd Test in Adelaide.

While many former players, commentators and pundits have raised concerns around the fitness of the English players, who looked visibly gassed after a few hours in the field, Baz said the boys were actually 'over prepared for Brisbane.'

"Yeah, even though we were over prepared, we are going even harder with the preparation for the next Test," said Baz this morning, while drinking a Heineken poolside.

"They boys just need to get extra acclimatised to the Australian conditions, and a big part of that is damaging their skin cells with way too much in the sun."

"Some of the old toffs were going on about their cardio during the last game, well let me tell you, drinking a few pints in the full sun and then playing a bit of French cricket by the pool or the beach is the shot of tonic for that."

When pressed on whether some extra actual training sessions to prepare for tough, hot, Australian conditions might be helpful, Baz laughed.

"You guys just don't get it do you," he said.

Our reporter nodded, admitting maybe they didn't.