England cancelled today's proposed net session and held a team meeting instead to discuss how they can end their run of defeats in the one-day series.

The tourists trail 4-0 in the seven-match series and face India again in tomorrow's day-night encounter in Cuttack.

Normally, the team would have trained today to acclimatise to the conditions but they decided to hold a team meeting at their hotel.

"We thought it would be better to talk about and identify areas that have not gone quite right," said Middlesex batsman Owais Shah.

"The guys thought we would get more out of discussing particular aspects of where we've gone wrong and try and put them right.

"Everyone feels they are hitting the ball okay and the bowlers feel all right. You're not going to forget how to play your shots because you don't practise for one day."

The decision followed a management meeting yesterday involving coach Peter Moores, captain Kevin Pietersen and senior players Paul Collingwood and Andrew Flintoff.

Shah said: "Sport at this level is more mental than anything you do in the field so we feel if we can make the mental adjustments it should put us in a better frame of mind."

He will leave England's squad after the final one-day international in Delhi next Tuesday to help Middlesex's Champions League campaign, providing he is not needed for the three-day warm-up match in Baroda starting on 5 December.

"If I am not involved in that three-day game then there is an option for me to play for my county rather than carry drinks," said Shah.