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Brendon McCullum\u2019s side failed miserably in breaking the duck, after losing the Ashes inside 11 days despite Australia missing the likes of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and Usman Khawaja for periods throughout the series.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Australia to have had so many great players missing \u2013 and it looks to me they are going to win the series 4-1 \u2013 tells you that English cricket have got a few home truths to answer about playing cricket in Australia,\u201d Vaughan said on Fox Sports News\u2019 Ashes Daily<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a frustration, not just with ex-England players, but I think a lot of the ex-Aussie players. We generally all felt this England side \u2014 with the talent that they have led by Ben and Baz \u2014 had a great opportunity here in Australia. I\u2019ve mentioned all the Aussie greats that haven\u2019t played, this was a chance for England and haven\u2019t taken it.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir preparation was very poor. Their stubbornness in the way that they play has been very poor for a while now. They haven\u2019t accepted that you need to go up and down the gears in Test match cricket. Obviously, their bowling has been found wanting.\u201d<\/p>\n
While England were successfully able to win their first Test down under for 15 years in Melbourne on a dicey MCG pitch, the touring side has underdelivered considerably on the high expectations built up both internally and externally.<\/p>\n
England drop 17 catches in horror series | 08:09<\/p>\n
The likes of Ben Duckett, Ben Stokes, Jamie Smith \u2014 as well as Zak Crawley and Harry Brook to a lesser extent \u2014 have failed to fire consistently this series with the bat, leaving all too much for the England bowlers to do.<\/p>\n
And the cultural narrative driven by England since McCullum took the reins as head coach in mid-2022 has disappointed Vaughan and many others.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis England group have got a lot of thinking to do, a lot of accepting that things haven\u2019t been right. We know at the end of Ashes tours \u2013 particularly when you\u2019ve had two goes at trying to win the Ashes \u2013 generally personnel does change. But if this management carries on, they clearly have to carry on and change,\u201d Vaughan continued. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey have to change the culture around the group. They seem to have created a cult around the way this team play and talk. A lot of it is nonsense and that has to change. For English cricket to get back to winning Test series and five-match series, you have to remember they haven\u2019t won a five-match series since 2017 \u2026 they\u2019ve had some flamboyant times and exciting times in recent years, but they haven\u2019t won a big, big series \u2013 and that\u2019s what English cricket has been known for, for 20-odd years.\u201d<\/p>\n
While captain Stokes has shown moments of defiance, the tactical side of his game has been easily outshone in comparison to stand-in Australia Steve Smith \u2014 and Cummins during his one Test in Adelaide.<\/p>\n
England teammates turn on eachother | 00:37<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing I thought I\u2019d never say, Ben Stokes\u2019 tactics haven\u2019t been quite right on this trip either,\u201d revealed Vaughan.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s given it everything. Stokes, up until this series, I put him right up there with some of England\u2019s greatest ever captains. Some of his tactics over the course of the last three years have been absolutely fantastic.<\/p>\n
\u201cI look at the way he\u2019s managed a young spinner like Shoaib Bashir \u2013 who hasn\u2019t played on this trip \u2013 Ben Stokes has got the best out of him. For whatever reason on this tour, his tactical side of his job has not been with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor him not to have taken at least one new ball throughout this tour is staggering. For him to have bowled the donkey overs \u2013 from 66 to 80 \u2013 with the old ball and not take that second new ball when England had to win that moment, again, was remarkable.<\/p>\n
\u201cJosh Tongue opens the bowling back home for Nottingham, (but) he hasn\u2019t opened the bowling here. He\u2019s been, with Ben, England\u2019s best bowler. Brydon Carse doesn\u2019t open the bowling back home, (but) he has opened the bowling here. He\u2019s (been) tried with the new ball, with the old ball he\u2019s bowled nicely and got plenty of wickets.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to question the tactical side.\u201d<\/p>\n
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