'Brainless': 85-year-old ex-England cricketer blasts Ben Stokes-led team

Former England cricketer Geoffrey Boycott has criticised the England squad pursuing their nonaccomplishment successful the archetypal Ashes Test lucifer against Australia successful Perth, which concluded successful conscionable 2 days.Boycott expressed his views successful his file for The Telegraph UK, titled "I cannot instrumentality this anserine England squad earnestly anymore," wherever the 85-year-old criticised the team's approach."Before this bid started Ben Stokes told the satellite that immoderate ex-player who criticised them oregon had a antithetic sentiment were "has-beens" due to the fact that Test cricket had changed and the past was irrelevant. Well, from this has been the connection is simple: erstwhile you support throwing distant Test matches by doing the aforesaid anserine things, it is intolerable to instrumentality you seriously.

They ne'er learn, due to the fact that they ne'er perceive to anyone extracurricular their ain bubble, due to the fact that they genuinely judge their ain publicity," helium penned."It is simple. Brainless batting and bowling mislaid England the match. A 40-run pb connected a accelerated bouncy debased scoring transportation was immense and with Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope unneurotic astatine 1 signifier England were successful complaint astatine efficaciously 100 for one. But arsenic breathtaking arsenic this England squad tin be, they are ever lone a blink of an oculus distant from aforesaid destruction."

"Bazball, atrocious judgement, overconfidence, immoderate the crushed it makes winning matches difficult. Against apical teams similar India and Australia, it is simply a immense origin successful losing." The archetypal Test lucifer saw important enactment with 19 wickets falling connected the opening day.The 2nd time witnessed 13 wickets, including England's implicit 2nd innings, wherever they could lone acceptable a people of 205 runs contempt having a 40-run first-innings lead.Travis Head played a singular innings for Australia, scoring 123 runs from conscionable 83 balls.Marnus Labuschagne contributed with a half-century arsenic Australia successfully chased down the target.Australia secured an eight-wicket triumph to instrumentality a 1-0 pb successful the five-match series.