Afraid that’s a forlorn hope to expect some fight. Just get these last 3 wickets please and put us out of our misery. A thoroughly miserable, disastrous tour with no redeeming features and no glimmer of optimism for the future. Our best bowlers are retiring soon, we need a new coach and captain and two new opening batsmen, a middle order of Test quality.This is embarrassing to watch. Where’s the fight
mbe’s all round"At least it wasn't 5-0"
Who would take over as captain?Humiliation.
All of the management have to go and Root dropped from captain to concentrate on his batting.
Clean sweep and a focus on red ball cricket reqd.
But it will never happen
Never even got close to winning oneJoe Root and Ben Stokes, in 3 series, have *never* won an Ashes Test in Australia.
Sorry Jonny but I disagree that the rise of linited overs cricket is the sole cause of England's demise. As has been pointed out red ball cricket in both India and NZ has given way to the prominence of white ball cricket but the Test teams have improved immeasurably in the last 5 years.It seems to me that the regression of the red ball game in England will never be reversed because the whole thing was driven by a desire for a more accessible game (including increased revenue).
There's no way this will chance anytime soon, so we're facing a similar story every other Ashes series.
I think Stokes’ mental well-being would be a significant factor, he is just back into the team and I don’t think picking up the captaincy would do him a great deal of good.All very well saying strip captaincy from Root but who else is there to replace him?
Only viable option is Stokes who has very limited experience and would have to give up being a bowler if he were to become captain as there's no way he could manage being premier all rounder and captain.
On his day Stokes is a world class batsman but that day doesn't seem to come round very often these days.