Root and (Dawid) Malan are the only ones averaging over 30, Root and Rory Burns are the only ones with test hundreds. Root had surpassed Michael Vaughan for the most test runs in a calendar year for England on Friday and even the former captain was critical of the way England collapsed. "Problem for England is when they have a bad session, they have test match losing sessions with the bat. It's been happening for too long against the better teams," Vaughan wrote on Twitter https://twitter.com/MichaelVaughan/status/1469488766024888323. Time and again, England's batting line-up underwhelms and Root himself can only carry so much weight," Atherton wrote in The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ashes-englands-mauling-at-the-gabbatoir-could-be-start-of-long-winter-5jmfsklx6.

Source: The Times December 11, 2021 16:52 UTC