Veteran England pacer Stuart Broad on Sunday said he has sympathy for Test captain Joe Root and head coach Chris Silverwood after their 4-0 Ashes defeat. Since the embarrassing Ashes result in Australia, critics have called for the sacking of Root and Silverwood to completely revamp England’s approach to red-ball cricket.
“There was speculation about the leadership position of the England Test team after the Ashes series loss, but I think it is important to put things in context. In my lifetime I can’t remember a tough time for anyone to be a captain or coach for more than two years. “We have played an extortionate amount of Test cricket,” Broad wrote in his column for the Daily Mail on Sunday.
“We’ve changed our players a lot to take care of mental health – we’ve made 47 personnel changes in 15 Tests. It was incredibly difficult for both Joe Root and Chris Silverwood to find any consistency in the playing XI or coaching staff And that makes it hard to reinforce the messages you’re trying to get into the team. I have a lot of sympathy for both of them,” Broad added with 152 Test caps to his name.
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Talking about the embarrassing 4-0 loss in the Ashes, Broad said, “At the end of the day, we England players weren’t good enough, Australia is a better Test team than us, and more positions have more Arsenal. Australia.” You need to be at the absolute best of your England team to win in the U.S. and it’s going to be a really, really tough time for Australia.
The same thing happened in both 1986-87 and 2010-11. In those years, Australia was changing its batting and bowling line-up and England had the best teams. Unfortunately, none of the stars aligned in this series.”
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Broad, who went into the Ashes with no games under his belt, took 13 wickets in three matches. But he felt he bowled most of his overs when the Ashes lost to England. “The one thing that frustrates me the most, as someone who considers himself good under pressure and is a big game player – which has shown through my performances in the Ashes – is that I bowled most of my overs. When the series was gone.
“On a personal level, I think I did my best. With no playing time to come back from a calf injury, I had to rely on a lot of experience: the experience of being on those grounds first, those batsmen. Bowling experience and 14 years of international cricket experience.
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