The entire team needs a revamp really. Too stale, the batting has been awful since the India home series in 2011 really, particularly away, where with the exception of the India away series its been utterly shambolic. Not only are they awful at batting they're the most boring batting side in the world too, virtually every match is a run rate below 3, often down to around 2.5.
The worst part of the team for me though this series has been the fielding - the only reason for such poor fielding is laziness and not taking the practice serious. Even yesterday another 2 easy catches put down. As much as the bowling has been bad, with the amount of catches being put down every single innings we're essentially asking the bowlers to take about 5 extra wickets per innings.
Flowers and the coaches like Gooch need to go. Cook needs to go as captain as our best batsmen is now a liability and his decisions are always conservative - England need a captain like Clarke. Broad I think would take over and be a much more aggressive style, but its highly unlikely Cook will give up the captaincy. Away from that i'd say the selection needs a shake up but a lot of the replacements are questionable - we've seen with Bairstow he's not up to standard (his glove work has been poor too), so can we drop Prior? Any talk of Jos Buttler is far too premature, anyone who saw his batting in the ICC champions trophy where he was repeatedly bowled by the most innocuous of balls can see he's a long way to go before ever playing test cricket.
This is for me the worst result in England's history. That they're on the verge of whitewash to a Australia team they just beat 3-0, who have a good bowling attack, but are still a pretty poor batting side (Clarke is excellent but the rest range from average to poor), and what's more, haven't been competitive in a single game.
