A forthright England team meeting saw batters forced to rewatch 14 of their dismissals during the 275-run defeat in Adelaide
during the 2019 Ashes series – when Justin Langer replayed in full the entire fourth day meltdown suffered at the hands of Ben Stokes – Silverwood put 14 of the 20 English wickets to fall on the TV screen in the dressing room and highlighted failures to leave balls in the channel that didn’t need playing at.
The frank nature of this all-in debrief is understood to have surprised a number of players present. But the response is said to have been positive, with England’s faltering top seven accepting a need to address a collective urge to feel bat on ball after eight of their 14 wickets fell to catches between wicketkeeper and gully off the seamers.
‘It doesn’t feel in the dressing room that it’s a batters v bowlers thing,’ said Mark Wood. ‘It’s not like that.’Root’s public appraisal of the bowlers dropping too short, though not supported by the Hawk-Eye data and a source ofregarding leadership, risked creating a rift given the second Test was ultimately lost during a collapse of eight for 86 in 38.3 overs on the third day.
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