Bazball has failed and heads must roll but it isn't Ben Stokes who needs to go

It's not quite over yet but we all know how this story ends - and it's usually with a big fat nil. But there's something about this Ashes capitulation that sets it apart from the rest.

In previous drubbings Down Under, England have been outplayed by a superior team or been a team at the end of its shelf life. The above doesn't apply to this lot. This team should be at its peak and, man for man, is a genuine match for the Aussies, especially minus two of their main strike bowlers. But in depressingly familiar Bazball fashion, they've blown the best chance in a generation to win on Australian soil because of bloody-minded arrogance.

They can't say they weren't warned. Ex players - or 'has-beens' in the words of Ben Stokes - were queuing up to point out their preparation was flawed, tha