Ben Stokes, the England Test captain, has said the team ‘need to go back to the drawing board’ after losing the Ashes 4-1.
‘When you come up against a team like Australia, who know how to play cricket out here and you are adding to your own downfall then you’re going to end up losing the series 4-1 like we have done,’ Stokes said.
‘In the first couple of years, teams found it difficult to try and come up with anything to combat the way we played, but now teams are coming up with plans that are standing up to a certain style of cricket that we want to play.
‘When a trend is happening on a consistent basis, that’s when you do need to go back and look at the drawing board and make some adjustments.’
