Chris Stocks looks beyond the on-field failings to identify why the series ended in such a heavy defeat

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Players dropped at the end of an away Ashes series defeat tend to never play for England’s Test team again. In all, 11, including Kevin Pietersen, suffered that fate following the whitewashes of 2006-07 and 2013-14.
That’s bad news for Gary Ballance, Jake Ball and Tom Curran, all discarded for the upcoming t...