Former captain Michael Vaughan had called for England’s senior players to head to Canberra to play a warm-up match with the pink ball

The shortest Ashes Test in 104 years left travelling England fans anguished at their team's attitude and had implications, too, for Perth

Ben Stokes has given England a first-innings advantage in the opening Ashes test against Australia. Stokes won the toss Friday but England was skittled for 172 as Australian pace bowler Mitchell Starc took a career-best 7-58.

The tourists collapsed to a famous Ashes defeat in the first Test in Perth on Saturday, with a 69-ball century from Travis Head and a catastrophic afternoon batting session – in which England lost four wickets for just 11 runs – helping Australia complete a remarkable turnaround inside two days.

Brendon McCullum says England not married to any position over deploying senior players in two-day pink-ball game against a Prime Ministers XI ahead of the second Ashes Test; match had seemingly been

England need to look at themselves and work out why their batters played the shots they did in that miserable second innings capitulation

Coach Brendon McCullum appealed to England fans to "keep the faith", reaffirming that there would be no shift in strategy despite the team's humiliating defeat in the first Ashes Test in Perth.