Quote Originally Posted by Ramshank72 View Post
Everything this team and management have been saying, has been about preparing for this Ashes series, and they've failed beyond comprehension. It'll be easy to change the management, but I don't know how they find a new captain. Nobody looks too good to drop, and the obvious choices have either already dome it (Root), or are in the same poor mindset (Brookes). I don't see English cricket recovering for a good few years, maybe a generation.
The Aussies aren't even that good man for man, they're just better applied.
How I miss Cook and Strauss boring us by scoring lots of runs over long periods.
I agree it'll take years to recover to the standard needed to win the Ashes and the dominance of the one day game in England makes it more difficult. Yes, under home conditions where a plethora of run of the mill seam bowlers ply their trade it's possible to cover up the lack of simple batting technique so easily exposed by Starc and Co. Tbh I see little changing, too much brass in the 100, 20/20 etc.