Former England captain Andrew Strauss will play a key role in the ECB’s review of the Ashes debacle. England lost the Ashes as they conceded the lead of 0-3 after another humiliating defeat at Melbourne inside 7 sessions.
Team Director Ashley Giles will submit the review report to the ECB after the series then Strauss will play a key role in advising the board’s executives about the future of England test side.
Coincidentally Andrew Strauss was the captain when England last time won a test match in Australia as they beat Australia by 3-1 in the Ashes 2010-11. Since then England played 13 Test matches and lost 12 of those, only one test ended in a draw.
“In 34 years, we’ve come here and won once. But being here now, I absolutely feel the responsibility of losing this Ashes series. We all do, and we can only apologize. I know there will be a lot of emotion, a lot of anger, about how we’ve lost it, but we know it’s not an easy place to come,” Giles spoke ahead of 4th Test match
“Unless we look at more systemic change and collective responsibility and solutions, we can make whatever changes we want. You can change me, change the head coach, change the captain. But we’re only setting up future leaders for failure. That’s all we’re doing. We’re only pushing it down the road.” he added further.
England couldn’t compete at all in this Ashes as the visitors failed to cross 300-mark even once in 6 innings so far. Only two batters- Joe Root and Dawid Malan could cross the fifty mark as they scored three and two fifties respectively.
And as far as bowling is concerned it’s even worse. England bowling unit couldn’t pick 2o wickets in a test match in Australia since January 2014.
Many former England raised questions over England’s tactics over the last few weeks. In the first test at Brisbane England went without Anderson and Broad and elected to bat first on a gloomy morning. And in the next, they rested their most express pace bowler Mark Wood.
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