ECB lacks power to bring about change in attempt to arrest heavy Ashes defeats | Matt Hughes

Governing body is unlikely to commission any formal inquiries, having lost control of the sport’s governance and operationsThe England and Wales Cricket Board will have few shots to play in its review of the Ashes tour when it meets next month to sift through the wreckage of the series. The tone and outcome of those meetings will be determined by whether England can rally or are whitewashed in Australia for the third time in six tours.Over the past 20 years of disappointments in Australia other than Andrew Strauss’s outlier in 2010-11, the ECB has exhausted all avenues. It appointed Ken Schofield, the former executive director of golf’s European Tour, to conduct an external inquiry and then asked Strauss, England’s last Ashes-winning captain in Australia, to review the sport’s domestic structure. Continue reading...