Are England players scared of Brendon McCullum? (AP Photo)

Michael Vaughan believes England players are ‘fearful’ of asking captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum for some game-time in an upcoming practice match, ‘because that’s not their method’. The ex-captain even urged the members of the Ashes touring party to book their tickets themselves, if that’s the case.

A two-day pink-ball match has been scheduled between a Prime Minister’s XI and an England XI on November 29 in Canberra. However, England are unlikely to send any first-team members in it, despite the two-day defeat in the first Test of the series in Perth, which left them with an 11-day gap till the second Test in Brisbane.

Instead, England Lions, their ‘A’ team, will play that match. Although McCullum said he’d consid

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