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England captain Ben Stokes says the tourists are “quite emotional” after their bold dreams of coming to Australia to snatch the Ashes were dashed before Christmas.

The tourists have a 0-3 series deficit after 11 days of Test play in Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide and have only a five-day break before the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.

“Obviously, that dream that we came here with is now over – which is obviously incredibly disappointing,” Stokes told Seven in the aftermath of Australia’s 82-run win at the Adelaide Oval.

“Everyone is obviously hurting and quite emotional about it.

“[But] we’ve got two more games to go and that’s where the focus needs to switch to now. We obviously came here with a goal in mind, and we’ve not been able to achieve that.

“It hurts, and it sucks, but we ain’t going to stop.”

Pressed on the main difference between Australia and England, the veteran campaigner said the host nation’s superiority came down to consistency.

“I think just the constant execution,” said Stokes.

“Australia have been able to executive things on a much more consistent basis than us, both with the ball, with the bat and in the field.

“This game of cricket it is based on how you bat and how you bowl, and how you field. And they’ve been able to out-do us on a much higher level.

“We showed it in passages in these first three games and again, this week we did incredibly well to take it where we did to in this fourth innings [today].”