The Cricket Paper Magazine 23rd December 2016 Edición anterior

OUTCLASSED: NO MORE EXCUSES
This Sub-continental nightmare was undoubtedly England’s worst overseas experience since the 2013-14 Ashes tour. Unlike then, though, the 4-0 humiliation in India is not the end for a once-great team but a significant bump in the road for a developing group of players, who, everything being equal, should come back stronger. Whatever the rights and wrongs of Kevin Pietersen’s banishment following the last Ashes tour, there is no doubt England’s dressing-room was broken and divided. Alastair Cook, whose captaincy is likely to be the major casualty of a winter that has seen his side win just one of seven Tests against Bangladesh and India, alluded to the togetherness of this current dressing-room in adversity.