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It’s all up for grabs now. After England waved the white flag here at the MCG, almost no one involved in the Test team can say with any certainty that they will still be in their job once the dust has settled on this horrific tour.
The managing director, the head coach, the captain, the opening batsmen, the middle order, the wicketkeeper, the spinner and a couple of the seamers — all will be looking over their shoulders when the inquest begins into how a side that bet the house on the Ashes has defaulted so badly on the mortgage.
One or two may jump before they are pushed — not least Chris Silverwood and Joe Root, who between them have presided over one win in England’s last 12 Tests, and nine defeats in 2021 alone, a national nadir for a calendar year.
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ECB chief executive Tom Harrison should also be considering his position, but he won’t just yet, because there is a huge bonus to trouser first. That, remember, is for overseeing the Hundred — a tournament whose existence sums up the futility of English cricket’s attempts to win a five-Test series in Australia.
England batting collapses long predated the Hundred, of course. But the direction of travel in our domestic game is now crystal clear: white-ball cricket is what butters the parsnips.
And unless the game undergoes the ‘reset’ that Root rightly said it must after his team were bowled out for 68 on the third morning here, then we should expect no different when England return in four winters’ time.
The Ashes have been surrendered in the equivalent of 10 days; Root and Co spent longer than that in Gold Coast quarantine.
Make no mistake, the Test team are at an all-time low. Their collective batting average of 18 at Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne is their lowest in a Test series since 1890, when the pitches were…
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