Trescothick, who played in three Ashes campaigns including a triumphant 2005 series on home soil, said England's batters were also looking to be smarter on the pitch.
'We want pace on the ball, we want the ball to bounce and we want the ball to carry through so that when we're batting, we can be aggressive, we can attack, and we can put pressure back on the bowlers.'
'We know we're behind the game again, in the situation we currently stand.'
The ECB said the batsman will not be named in the 14-man squad for next month tournament in India on medical grounds.
'There's probably no need to sort of walk him off in that fashion'
'Sometimes vice-captains aren't brilliant captains.'
'If you get to the point where you can draw the game, of course, we're not stupid enough to think that you have to just win or lose.'
The three roles attracted a high calibre of applicants and were subject to a rigorous recruitment process. As part of the move, Lewis will vacate his role as Young Lions head coach, and this role will be reconfigured into an Elite Pathway Coach role.
Former England player Jonathon Trott has also fulfilled a similar role with the team ahead of the Test match against Ireland, ESPN Cricinfo reported.
Somerset batsman Marcus Trescothick announced his retirement from international cricket with England due to health problems on Saturday. The 32-year-old has not played international cricket since withdrawing from tours to India and Australia in 2006 due to the illness, which he described last September as stress related.
Injured wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant will bat on day five of the fourth Test, said India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak on Saturday.
The England opener has suffered a recurrence of the stress-related illness which led to him returning home from England's tour of India.
Zak Crawley, Tom Hartley, Dan Lawrence, Ollie Pope, Gus Atkinson and assistant coach Marcus Trescothick met the Dalai Lama at his residence.
After hundreds upon hundreds of runs on flat tracks in the ongoing series so far, it took the green top at The Oval to finally produce the best day of the Indian summer, on the fifth and last Friday of the Test series.
Fired-up England reduced India to 58/4 chasing 193 for victory in a highly-charged final session on day four on Sunday as a gripping third Test at Lord's.
The left-handed opener's unbeaten 124 rallied England to 256 for 9 at close on day 1 of their three-day match against the PCB Patron's XI.
England bowled out Pakistan for 185 in 44 overs in the second ODI.
England were 269 for 3 from 48 overs, 165 ahead, after bundling out Bangladesh for 104 on day 1 of the second Test.
The former England batsman, in his autobiography, has admitted he was suffering so much he believed he was dying and even considered self-harming.
Opening batsman Marcus Trescothick has made himself unavailable for England's winter programme while he recovers from a stress-related illness, the ECB said on Wednesday.
Marcus Trescothick will retire from professional cricket after the current county season ends, announced the former England opening batsman.
India pacer Prasidh Krishna relished the banter with 'good mate' Joe Root on Day 2 of the fifth and final Test, and said riling up England's batting mainstay was part of the team's plans.
He never shared what kind of mental trauma he coped with when he shunned the game but now former England opener Marcus Trescothick has revealed all which forced him to abandon his side's 2006 India tour midway. Trescothick said he suffered from a major breakdown on the tour while captaining England and was compelled to leave.
Irish-born batsman Ed Joyce has been called into the England Ashes squad for Marcus Trescothick.
The departure from England's Ashes tour of depressed batsman Marcus Trescothick has evoked widespread sympathy among Australian sportsmen.
England beat the West Indies by seven wickets in the one-day tri-series.
The opener scored 108 and hit a six to win the match as the hosts scraped home against Pakistan.
Former England opening batsman Marcus Trescothick has withdrawn from his county side's pre-season tour of the United Arab Emirates after the recurrence of a stress-related illness, the club said on Saturday. The 32-year-old has not played for England since withdrawing from tours to India and Australia in 2006 due to the illness, which he described last September as stress related.
Opener Marcus Trescothick and uncapped duo Mark Pettini and Luke Wright were named on Wednesday in England's 30-man provisional squad for the first world Twenty20 tournament in South Africa this September.
Former England batsman Marcus Trescothick has revealed that he was on the verge of harming himself at one stage because of the depressions that curtailed his international cricket career.
Michael Vaughan backed the decision by former team mate Marcus Trescothick to withdraw from the winter tours saying on Thursday the opener could have endangered his England career by returning too soon.
Chief selector Geoff Miller on Wednesday dismissed the possibility of Marcus Trescothick's return to the England team for the final Ashes Test against Australia after the Somerset batsman had hinted at coming out of his international retirement. Trescothick had quit international cricket last year following stress-related illness.
Somerset opener Marcus Trescothick was named English cricket's player of the year by his fellow professionals on Thursday after another prolific batting season. The former England batsman scored 2,934 runs in all cricket, including 1,817 first-class runs at an average of 75.70.
On July 13, 2002, the Indian cricket team achieved an extraordinary victory on foreign soil by defeating a formidable England side in their own backyard to clinch the Natwest Tri-Series, which also featured Sri Lanka.
"He is going home due to personal reasons," coach Duncan Fletcher said.
The England opener had considered returning home for personal reasons
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