(Reuters) – Former England captain Alastair Cook mentioned England had reached “all-time low” with their abject batting collapse in Hobart on Sunday as the newest defeat of a calamitous Ashes sequence ramped up the strain on skipper Joe Root and coach Chris Silverwood.
Australia crushed England by 146 runs with two days to spare within the day-night take a look at because the hosts wrapped up the sequence 4-0.
The guests had been aggressive in solely a handful of periods over the 5 checks and the collapse in Hobart, the place they misplaced 10 wickets for 56 runs, was onerous to observe, mentioned Cook.
“That was very powerful viewing, that needs to be our all-time low, there can’t be a worse place than getting bowled out in an hour and a half,” Cook mentioned on BT Sport. “The situations are powerful and a few good bowling, however there was no resilience there.
“That’s the largest shock as a batter and knowledgeable who performs cricket … as soon as they lose one or two, nobody steps up and cease the slide.
“We want to have a look at every part, begin rebuilding this take a look at crew. No stone may be left unturned because it needs to be higher.”
England suffered heavy defeats in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne earlier than salvaging a attract Sydney.
Former skipper Mike Atherton agreed there needed to be an overhaul of the England administration after one other “completely abject, humiliating collapse” at the same time as captain Root mentioned he wish to stay within the function.
“England haven’t mastered the artwork of batting, not by a good distance, however they’ve mastered the artwork of the collapse,” Atherton wrote in his column for The Times.
“Root is an impressive man, a superb batsman however a captain who has run his race. Beforehand, he mentioned this tour would outline his captaincy and right here we’re.”
Atherton additionally lashed out at coach Silverwood and Ashley Giles, England’s managing director of males’s cricket.
“There isn’t any method, certainly, that Silverwood can proceed as head coach and selector after this, and no method that Giles ought to proceed as managing director of males’s cricket, both, given the choices he has made,” he mentioned.
(Reporting by Hritika Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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