Our national cricket writers offer their views on the Ashes tour as the post-mortem begins on another heavy defeat in Australia

Will Macpherson The Times

“The tour games were insipid, with the opposition poor, and England’s surest match-winner was nowhere to be seen. Put simply, they never had the cattle to succeed, and no available player left at home would have altered the series’ course. But there were small errors of selection, planning (no bowling coach for three matches?) and judgement was too often poor on and off the field. A peculiar drubbing, in that there are...