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DARREN Lehmann maintained the party line on Sunday when asked his thoughts on England's horrendous Ashes tour.
The Australian coach insisted his focus was solely on his own squad and wouldn't be drawn on the myriad problems engulfing the tourists before the Boxing Day Test.
But in the next breath he was keen to discuss the success of his team's plan to tire the England pacemen by getting after retiring spinner Graeme Swann.
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Lehmann lauded Swann's 255-wicket Test career, but said the batsmen's instructions to launch after his bowling had been important to his team's 3-0 series lead.
"We had a plan for him in England and we didn't execute it as well (in the winter series). We obviously changed things around a little bit, but he's a big player when they only had four bowlers (before Ben Stokes' inclusion)," Lehmann said.
"You have to try to take one or two of them out of the equation and make their quicks bowl more. That was certainly the plan for us.
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"If we make them bowl as much as we can, it means we're batting well and that's the key. We didn't have the opportunity to do that in England and in a long series you have to do that."
Lehmann said the exclusion of several veteran English players could provide an important edge in what has been a hard-fought series full of niggle.
"We just want to play the brand of cricket that wins us cricket games. Obviously it's been quite aggressive from both sides and it's good, hard Ashes cricket.
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"To have two senior guys not play, that may be an advantage, but also (their) younger guys get a chance.
"But I only worry about us. That's all we can do. We can't worry about England and I'm sure they weren't worried about us (earlier in the year)."
Lehmann said there would be no lack of motivation for the Aussies, despite having secured the Ashes.
And he said the improvement he demanded needed to come from the top-order batsmen in the first innings.
But he was quick to hose down any talk of pressure on Victorian opener Chris Rogers, who made the candid confession on Saturday that he thought his place was the most in jeopardy among a team that will start with the same XI that has played all series.
"There's no dramas at all," Lehmann said of Rogers.
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