Ah, that’s more like it. The spineless collapse (two in one match even), followed by the customary promises of ‘taking the positives’ and ‘learning from your mistakes’, and summer wouldn’t be summer without the sound of ex players getting stuck into current players. The fall out will go on for a while yet, but the one thing no-one can argue about is that, in the space of a few harrowing days, Joe Root has aged so badly he now looks about 16.
Actually, England were so bad at Trent Bridge that the “taking the positives” count was well down on...
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