England have resisted calls to send senior players for a pink-ball practice match ahead of the second Ashes Test, passing up the chance to spend more time in the middle.
A slipshod two-day defeat in the series opener at Perth left an 11-day gap in the tourists' schedule before the day/night Test in Brisbane and opened up the option of using next weekend's England Lions fixture in Canberra as a competitive tune-up for the first team.
