Australia coach, McDonald, won't be happy unless his side win The Ashes outright with victory at The Oval.
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00:00 Still a job to do. This group had great clarity on what they wanted to achieve when they come
00:05 over here and that's to win the Ashes. So nothing really changes going into the Oval.
00:10 It feels like we're back where we started for the World Test Championship, the one-off
00:14 game. So yeah, there's a sense of a task at hand and it's all in front of us and we want
00:22 to win the Ashes first and foremost.
00:24 It was a disappointing three days or so. We're not going to shy away from that and we own
00:29 that. England put immense pressure on us, there's no doubt about that. I thought the
00:33 surface day one gave us an opportunity to put a few more runs on the board and when
00:37 you sort of get behind a little bit and you're a little bit short, that can compound on you
00:41 a little bit. And I thought the way that Zac came out and put pressure on us, you've got
00:43 to give some credit to the opposition as well. We had a chance to revisit our plans, but
00:49 this team's played some great cricket over the last 18 months. So to judge us on three
00:54 days would be very harsh. But we feel as though we've still got improvement, even in those
01:00 first two test matches we felt like we had some improvement to make there as well. So
01:04 we've got capabilities to do that and that's the exciting and pleasing part of it.