Ben Duckett is determined to show just how important playing for England is to him following a woeful Ashes campaign.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
England have insisted they are ready to adapt under coach Brendon McCullum, who remains in charge despite a 4-1 series loss in Australia marred by poor preparation and off-field incidents that led to questions about the team's professionalism.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Opening batsman Duckett, who averaged 20.2 in Australia with a top score of just 42, was also filmed seemingly drunk during a controversial mid-series break in Noosa.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"I wasn't proud of how things went in Australia," Duckett said on Friday. "Hopefully, moving forward, we'll just see over time how much playing for England means for us."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Duckett has pulled the plug on a six-figure IPL deal to play for title-holders Nottinghamshire in the County Championship, prioritising his England place ahead of home Test series against New Zealand and Pakistan.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"This is not why I've done it but pulling out of the IPL, turning down a good chunk of money and missing the opportunity to play with and against some of the best players in the world to be here playing for Notts is a step in the right direction to show how much playing cricket for England means to me personally," he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"I genuinely don't know whether I'll be in the England team for the first Test (against New Zealand at Lord's on June 4), but I'll do everything I can over the next four or five weeks to be in the best shape of my life."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Australia's Travis Head -- who scored over 600 runs in the Ashes series including three hundreds -- labelled the reaction to 31-year-old left-hander's Duckett's conduct in Noosa "a bit stiff".<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"If we were winning it probably wouldn't have been news and nobody would have cared," said Duckett. "If it had been Travis Head in that video, people are probably loving it."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"We were struggling as a side and I was struggling as a player so I shouldn't have put myself in a position like that. That goes for any human being, let alone a professional sportsman," insisted Duckett.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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