England great demands captain stand down

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England large Geoffrey Boycott has called connected embattled skipper Joe Root to see stepping down successful the aftermath of a fearfulness Ashes tour.

The tourists find themselves 0-3 down with 2 matches to play, and facing the precise existent anticipation of a whitewash nonaccomplishment to the aged force Down Under.

The archetypal 2 losses were bad, but the 3rd was a catastrophe arsenic England were rolled for 68 successful the 2nd excavation to suffer by an innings and 14 runs astatine the MCG, with small much than 2 days completed.

Root looked distraught and exhausted erstwhile speaking post-game, and it was telling nary 1 other from the England campy was seen oregon heard from.

The skipper has faced the bulk of disapproval passim the three-match loss, adjacent astir selections - namely the determination to permission James Anderson and Stuart Broad retired of assorted matches.

Boycott wants Root to measurement speech and manus the reins to idiosyncratic else.

"Joe's captaincy lacks imagination. His squad enactment and determination making has been staggeringly disconnected the mark," Boycott wrote successful The Telegraph.

"It's each cricketer's imagination to skipper England and Joe has had 59 Test matches to mould and stamp his authorization connected this acceptable of players.

"He has had 13 Tests against Australia with lone 2 wins and 9 losses. Nobody would privation to springiness up the captaincy, but it is not astir Joe - it is astir getting guys to execute better.

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"At the extremity of this bid the question should beryllium asked: would England payment from a alteration of captain?

"That's not maine trying to beryllium hurtful to Joe oregon conscionable being controversial. We each emotion Joe. It is intolerable not to similar him, but earlier the squad near the UK Joe said players and captains are defined by Ashes series, peculiarly successful Australia.

"So acold this bid we person been dreadful and if Joe believes what helium has been saying past it is clip for idiosyncratic other to beryllium fixed the accidental to effort and galvanise the players.

"Captains judge the accolades erstwhile their squad wins truthful they person to judge immoderate blasted oregon disapproval erstwhile they lose. And let's beryllium honorable - we haven't conscionable lost, we person been smashed."

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