The Ashes

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The management get slaughtered for only picking players from a select few. Then they don’t pick one of them, Bashir, preferring a new addition, Jacks, and they get slaughtered for wrongly preserving with Bashir in the first place. Bashir is the youngest ever English bowler to take 50 wickets. I’d say he’s been worth his place. His form has dipped and he’s coming back from breaking a hand but he’s only 22 he’ll come again. In the meantime Jacks performed well at the Gabba. I see nothing wrong with preferring him over Bashir this week. 
England have performed abysmally so far but the criticism is OTT imo. Stokes/McCullum remain the second most successful partnership running the national side in the past 50 years. And we have such a great recent track record in Aus don’t we? 15 defeats in the last 17 matches

I don't think it's OTT to criticise a side that lost a test match in 2 days, nor the 3 day loss. In fact quite the opposite. People are absolutely within their rights to want blood after losing to the weakest Australian side in many years and decimated by injury.

Of course it’s not, criticism is fully justified. But it’s OTT to say they don’t have a clue what they’re doing, that’s patently untrue. They’ve won more than any England team since Brearley. So easy to be negative but they ain’t the first to struggle in Australia. The Aussies have their 2 premier fast bowlers out injured, one for just two matches. We’ve had exactly the same with Archer and Wood for over a year but I don’t recall anyone saying we were decimated