Australia have Leading England 3 - 0* on home soil in the last three matches of the 2021/22 Ashes Series in Australia and have retained the Ashes.

Joe Root in 2021
Joe Root and Ben Stokes (Photo : Getty Images)

Earlier in the series, England lost by 9 wickets in the first match in Brisbane on December 8 and then went one step further in the second match in Adelaide by losing 275 runs.

Bad World Records:

Following this, the team suffered another setback in the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne on December 26, losing by an innings and 14 runs. With these successive defeats, England have shared with Bangladesh the worst world record for most defeats in a calendar year in Test cricket history.
  • Bangladesh - 9 defeats (2003)
  • England - 9 defeats (2021)*
England also have the worst world record in Test cricket history for losing the most consecutive matches on a particular soil. The England team, which last won in Australia in 2011 then has lost 13 matches in the last 10 years.

Single Tree Joe Root:

England have lost 9 of the 15 Tests in which they has played in 2021, and the reason for all these defeats is their team's poor batting.

As Experts say "Captain Leading from the Front", England's captain Joe Root has been the only batsman to anchor in every match throughout the year and has amassed the greatest runs.

This year alone he has averaged 1708 runs in 7 innings at an average of 61, making him the third highest-scoring in Test cricket history also setting a world record for most runs in a calendar year by a captain.

Forest:

Cricket is a team sport in which the  team can only taste victory if all 11 players perform well but this year only Joe Root has scored runs for England in the batting line-up.

He is followed by Rory Burns in 2nd place with 530 runs but in 3rd place seeing "Extras" will hurt the hearts of England fans.

Most run scorers for England in 2021 Test cricket:

  1. Joe Root: 1708 runs
  2. Rory Burns: 530 runs
  3. Extras: 412 runs
  4. Johnny Bairstow: 391 runs
  5. Oli Pope: 368 runs.
From this it is clear that the batting of england team has been failed this year and this is what it has failed to do.

Duck Team:

Not only this, with the England batters had been duck out for 54 times this year, England have again equaled their own world record of being the team to be duck out most times in a calendar year.
  • England, 54 duck outs - 1998
  • UK, 54 Duck Outs - 2021 *
From this it appears that the England team is in poor form this year, and from the above figures it can be said that Joe Root's England has proved the golden words "single tree makes no forest".