New Delhi: England’s training schedule for the India tour was were drawn keeping in mind their lengthy travel rather than laziness, clarified skipper Jos Buttler after questions were raised on their willingness to work hard in the white-ball tour.

England lost the T20 series 1-4 and were whitewashed 0-3 in the ODI series that ended on Wednesday. England were decidedly second best amidst reports of training only once throughout the tour.

Former India all-rounder and coach Ravi Shastri also spoke about Englan’s insufficient training regime.

“From what I’ve heard, England have had just one net session this entire trip, if not any. If you’re not prepared to do the hard yards, you’re not going to improve," Shastri said while commentating during the third ODI, which England lost by 142 runs in Ahmedabad.

England trained twice before the beginning of their tour with a T20I in Kolkata on January 23 and then held one session each in Chennai and Rajkot before the second and third T20Is but skipped training before fourth and fifth T20Is in Pune and Mumbai respectively.

"I’m not sure that’s quite true, to be honest. We had a reasonably long tour, a few long travel days. There’s been a couple of times we’ve not trained, but we’ve certainly done plenty of training throughout the tour," Buttler said.

"We obviously try and create a really good environment, but don’t mistake that for a lazy environment or a lack of effort. The guys are desperate to perform and do well and improve."

Buttler said England they failed to capitalise on the moments they got in lost of the matches throughout the two white-ball series.

"It’s probably a bit of a similar theme from this series and the whole tour. We had a couple of moments in the game, but never enough to go on and force a result or win against a really good team," he said.

‘No impact in CT’

Despite their poor performance in India, Buttler insists it won't affect their performance in the Champions Trophy that begins on February 19.

"Not necessarily. Obviously, we want the results to build confidence and win games. That (would) feel a lot better sitting here and having won matches as opposed to losing. But look, we’re up against a good side in their own conditions. They’re probably the benchmark in ODI cricket at the moment," he said.

"We’ve not played near our potential. We’ve had some moments in games, but never enough to force results or look like winning games of cricket in the last three matches.

"But the fact that we’re not anywhere near our potential yet or playing individually or collectively where we know we can be gives us something to look forward to and believe that we can get there and be a dangerous team in the Champions’ Trophy," he added.