Former England captain Alastair Cook said England had reached "rock bottom" with their abject batting collapse in Hobart on Sunday as the latest defeat of a calamitous Ashes series ramped up the pressure on skipper Joe Root and coach Chris Silverwood. Australia crushed https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/wood-takes-five-australia-slump-141-8-2022-01-16 England by 146 runs with two days to spare in the day-night test as the hosts wrapped up the series 4-0. Former skipper Mike Atherton agreed there had to be an overhaul of the England management after another "utterly abject, humiliating collapse" even as captain Root said https://www.reuters.com/article/cricket-test-aus-eng-idUKKBN2JQ0AO he would like to remain in the role. "England have not mastered the art of batting, not by a long way, but they have mastered the art of the collapse," Atherton wrote in his column for The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ashes-abject-humiliating-embarrassing-joe-root-chris-silverwood-and-ashley-giles-all-need-to-go-zz9ss9033. Atherton also lashed out at coach Silverwood and Ashley Giles, England's managing director of men's cricket.

Source: The Times January 17, 2022 08:28 UTC