The Surfer

March 29, 2009
Posted on 03/29/2009 in Ashes
England's Ashes hopes are fading fast

After this latest humiliation, the concept that England will regain the Ashes appears to be beyond rational hope, writes Scyld Berry in the Sunday Telegraph.

England have no momentum, no head coach, no crackerjack bowler, no consistency – and, to be brutal, such moderateness has prevailed throughout the last generation, since other Test-playing countries became full-time professional, except when Duncan Fletcher defied the English system.

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