“It will be pretty relaxed,” said McCullum. “There will not be a whole lot of training. The boys have worked incredibly hard in Abu Dhabi keeping in mind they all came here with a lot of cricket under their belt as well. We have had plenty of training days, two varying Test matches and this is an opportunity to step away from the heat of the battle.”
While the move had the potential to offend their hosts, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has laid on a charter flight to facilitate the trip, which ends on Monday when England fly back to Rajkot for two days’ training ahead of the third Test. Later in the tour, there is another long break, during which England will stay in India.
During the Ashes last summer, Australia’s players took holidays across Europe with their families – taking in locations such as Amsterdam and Majorca – in order to recuperate during a sapping series. McCullum promised England would return ready to “drop…
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