Moores looks to mend it like Beckham

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Having seen his side throw away an opening victory to lose the NatWest Series 2-1 to West Indies, Moores held up David Beckham's practising at free-kicks as an example of how to improve.

He said: "We have got some skilful players but it is honing those skills on a continual basis which is important to move forward as a team. It is no different to any other sport: if you want to walk up and take a free-kick like David Beckham you are not going to do it without hours and hours of practice."

Moores, who inherited an England one-day unit which has now won only 14 of its past 44 matches against Test-class opponents, insisted: "It wasn't the will to win by the team, it was the skills.

"Getting those strong enough and good enough for one-day cricket.

"That could be anything from rotating the strike against the spinners, hitting out of the ground, bowling slower balls.

"It could be any of those specific skills that we know top-class performers in one-day cricket have, and we have to develop them in our own players.

"But like most things that are skilful, they don't come overnight."

It is six weeks until England get back into their red and blue gear as the three-Test series against India takes precedence.

Their standing in both forms of the game could not be much more of a contrast; sitting second in the Test rankings but seventh, a single point ahead of West Indies, in the one-day version.