A much-altered Great Britain side has lost 6-1 to Australia in their second and final Test as the Kookaburras fought back to draw the mini-series.
There was no repeat of Saturday's historic victory for the hosts - their first over the world champions in 27 years - as coach Bobby Crutchley made five changes, leaving out four of his most senior players ahead of their World League semi-final, which starts in Belgium at the weekend.
Ashley Jackson, Barry Middleton, Dan Fox, Iain Lewers - with a combined 779 international caps between them - and David Ames were all rested ahead of the trip to Antwerp, which doubles as an Olympic qualifier, and Australia took full advantage.
Chris Ciriello and Simon Orchard both scored before half-time at Bisham Abbey and although East Grinstead's Chris Griffiths pulled one back just after Blake Govers had made it 3-0, the Kookaburras pressed home their dominance through Jamie Dwyer, Ciriello and Aran Zalewski.
"Inconsistent is the best way to describe our performance," said Crutchley.
"Our longer term aim is to broaden our squad and get the strength in depth so it was good to give people the opportunity today.
"We obviously have the Olympic qualifiers at the forefront of our minds so we rested a couple with knocks just to be on the safe side."
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