Horrible, just horrible.

Completely devoid of backbone, to get to 68-0 and then lose 10 wickets for 56 is unfathomable.

A weak team manager and a team with too many “snowflakes” who bleat about having to be in a Covid bubble.

I think that character and determination need to be much more of a part of the “due diligence” that’s done when buying players or bringing players into you set up in all sports nowadays.

A lot of us will remember the way Megson focussed on these aspects when he took over in 1999-2000.

One of his first signing was the reserve centre half Butler from Port Vale, based on his commitment, character and his unerring ability to win the first header from a cross or a corner.

Megson had been appalled at the video he’d watched of us giving goals away from uncontested crosses.

We have a sad lack of bottle and b o l l o c k s in much of our sport now.

This non allowance of “winners” at school sports days that started 25+ years ago hasn’t helped.

But back to the cricket, sack Silverwood, replace Root as captain with a traffic cone and start looking more deeply at the character of selections.

I’m not the biggest fan of Wood in terms of his ability with the ball but he’s one of a very small number who have shown real grit in Australia both with bat and ball and in the field.