England skip nets to sort out India mess

England cancelled today's proposed net session and held a team meeting instead to discuss how they can end their run of defeats in the one-day series.

The tourists trail 4-0 in the seven-match series and face India again in tomorrow's day-night encounter in Cuttack.

Normally, the team would have trained today to acclimatise to the conditions but they decided to hold a team meeting at their hotel.

"We thought it would be better to talk about and identify areas that have not gone quite right," said Middlesex batsman Owais Shah.

"The guys thought we would get more out of discussing particular aspects of where we've gone wrong and try and put them right.

"Everyone feels they are hitting the ball okay and the bowlers feel all right. You're not going to forget how to play your shots because you don't practise for one day."