‘Embarrassing’ former players lament England’s Ashes humiliation
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Ian Botham and Steve Harmison call for a rethink after England crash to the quickest-ever Ashes loss in AustraliaFormer England cricketers and fans have begun what promises to be a long and painful postmortem into how the team slumped to the quickest ever Ashes series defeat in Australia after only 12 days of cricket.England legend Ian Botham said he was “embarrassed” after they capitulated to defeat by an innings and 14 runs on the third day of the third Test in Melbourne on Tuesday morning with only their captain Joe Root – as usual on this tour – showing any application with the bat. Continue reading...