David Warner has told England 's batters that practicing on synthetic pitches will help them be better-prepared to deal with the extra bounce that Australian wickets offer.
England's batting has let them down in the Ashes so far, only once posting a total of over 250 and captain Joe Root the only player to average above 40.
It has now been more than 4,000 days since the men's side won a Test match Down Under and Warner has offered England's struggling batters some advice.
Speaking ahead of the fourth Ashes Test in Sydney, Warner said: "From a batting point of view, the bounce is a big one.
"Growing up here in Australia and playing on these wickets is different for how we would approach it compared to England.
"I would probably suggest going on the synthos [synthetic pitches] and practicing against the [extra] bounce, doing that in England.
"You've always got to find ways to prepare and the only way you can prepare for bounce is on synthos in England."
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has been highly critical of England's batters, describing some of them as having "sub-standard techniques".
Speaking to cricket.com.au, Ponting said: "I don't think I've seen a worse-performing team in Australia than what I've seen over the last three games.
"Some of the English top-order batters that I've seen in the last couple of tours, without giving names, there's some techniques there that I just know are not going to stand up at Test level," he said.
"In challenging conditions and world-class bowlers up against sub-standard techniques, then you get what happened [in the third Test at the MCG].
"The little swing dibbly-dobblers that are getting them out over there [in county cricket], they're not facing that at Test level.
"They're facing guys who can actually bowl. What I've seen with their batting, they're just simply not good enough."
