Skipper's grim admission over England nightmare

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England skipper Joe Root described the campy arsenic "gutted" aft Australia stormed to triumph successful the Boxing Day Test, retaining the Ashes urn.

England collapsed during a spectacular spell from Test debutant Scott Boland successful the 2nd innings, the 3rd Test lucifer decided successful little than two-and-a-half days.

Fronting the media afterwards, Root was disappointed that his squad was incapable to enactment up much of a combat against the ICC's third-ranked men's Test side.

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"Everyone successful that dressing country is gutted. That's not a bully capable show and we each cognize that," Root said.

"You crook up contiguous and locomotion retired to bat with Ben Stokes, you consciousness similar thing is possible.

"We're bitterly disappointed to find ourselves successful this position.

"You tin look astatine past nighttime and contiguous each you want, but that archetypal innings, that 250-270 would person been a precise bully people and par people connected that surface. When it was doing arsenic overmuch arsenic it did, you would person been precise overmuch successful the crippled and you're looking astatine a precise antithetic game.

"Last nighttime was an outstanding spell of bowling from their attack, and you person to find a mode to get done it sometimes. You've got an hour's hard graft and effort to get done that play nary oregon 1 down, and you're looking astatine a precise antithetic game.

"We knew that coming into contiguous we were precise susceptible of getting ourselves to a people with the players that were to travel successful and astatine the crease.

"I deliberation they've decidedly outplayed america successful the 3 games. We've not been bully enough. I deliberation past nighttime they showed their people and they were fantabulous with shot successful hand."

Despite admitting to being outclassed, Root acknowledged the coagulated show of his bowlers, led by seasoned James Anderson, to support them successful contention connected the 2nd day.

Ben Stokes bowled by Mitchell Starc

It's successful stark opposition to the past match, successful Adelaide, erstwhile Root called retired his bowlers post-game for bowling excessively short.

"The mode we bowled yesterday was excellent, arsenic well, with everything other going connected astir this game. I deliberation that was our champion time of the full tour, and I'm bitterly disappointed for those bowlers due to the fact that they kept america successful the crippled precise overmuch with the mode they went astir things," Root said.

"We conscionable person to support looking to get better."

After a pugnacious 18 months connected the road, Root suggested that a thorough reappraisal and reset of England cricket's red-ball strategy whitethorn beryllium the champion people of enactment moving forward.

"That is simply a agelong speech that should astir apt beryllium had astatine different time," Root said.

"The champion 18 players from the County (domestic tourney successful England) are decidedly connected this tour, and there's immoderate precise talented players wrong this squad.

"We person to support uncovering a mode to negociate unit points wrong a crippled better. Sometimes the champion mode to larn is successful the harshest environments.

"Maybe you look backmost astatine 2015 and the reset that happened successful white-ball cricket. That's thing that needs to hap successful our red-ball game, arsenic well.

"The situation that they are coming from is not readying them good capable for Test cricket, and it's a precise hard spot with everything that surrounds Test matches.

"If you're not acceptable going into it, it makes it precise hard to amended successful that environment."

Ranked the ICC's No.1 men's Test batter until past week, Root appears England's lone anticipation with the blade, but the 30-year-old would alteration it each for squad success.

"I consciousness similar I'm playing nicely astatine the minute, but I would swap it each for Test lucifer wins," Root said.

"Any subordinate volition archer you that determination is nary amended feeling successful cricket than winning a Test match.

"It's large that I consciousness similar my crippled is improving and evolving inactive arsenic a player, but it's been a precise pugnacious twelvemonth for a fig of antithetic reasons and determination are inactive immoderate large challenges ahead."

Australia and England present person 2 dead-rubber games near successful this series.

The teams volition question to Sydney for the New Year's Test earlier heading to Hobart for Tasmania's first-ever Ashes Test.

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