England cricket burned to ashes

Sir Geoffrey Boycott, ever the no-nonsense Yorkshireman, has nailed it once again with his blunt assessment after England's humiliating Ashes surrender in Australia. "Bazball has failed and Brendon McCullum must go"—and on this evidence, who's going to argue?

Give full credit to McCullum and Stokes: they dragged a stale Test side out of the doldrums, injected entertainment, and racked up thrilling wins against lesser opposition. But when it mattered most—against a ruthless, world-class Australia on their own bouncy patches—Bazball crumbled into reckless shot-making, needless collapses, and a 3-0 thrashing that retained the urn in record-quick time, just 11 days of cricket.

Boycott's spot on: hubris replaced common sense. Reverse sweeps on fresh pitches, hooks at 150kph thunderbolts—it's entertaining until it gifts wickets and series. Stokes and McCullum kept digging that deeper hole, refusing to adapt when the aggressive mantra clearly wasn't working against the best.

Change is overdue. Time to return to proper Test cricket: patience, technique, building innings the old-fashioned way. McCullum's revolution had its day, but it's run its race. As Geoff says, if it ain't working, stop digging. England need fresh thinking to compete at the elite level again—not more of the same flashy failures.