England's Will Jacks, right, celebrates the wicket of Australia's Alex Carey with his team mates during play on day one of the third Ashes cricket test between England and Australia at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Australia, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/James Elsby)England, with their Bazball approach, promised a lot ahead of the Ashes Down Under. However, after three Tests it has been Deja Vu. More or less the same emotions and results that the English players, fans and pundits have been used to. With a series scoreline reading 3-0, former England cricketer Nasser Hussain altough said there have been changes since the last time the English toured the Aussie shores, but in this series it has been the same mistakes they have committed in the previous visits to Australia.
“I quite like the fact they have done things differently over the last four years since the last Ashes drubbing. I do like the fact they have thought differently; they have planned ahead. If you carry on doing what you have always done, you will get the same results, so they saw we need to do something different. I quite like that, they’ve thought ahead,” said Hussain on Sky Sports.
“But actually, if you’ve come here and looked at them in the last three-four weeks you’d have thought ‘is it really that different from any other England side?’ They’ve not batted well, they’ve not bowled well, they’ve not caught well. Under key moments and pressure situations, they’ve buckled,” he added.
“Every other England side apart from the (Andrew) Strauss side [in 2010-11] has come here and lost and lost convincingly. Joe Root has now played 17 Test matches in Australia; he hasn’t won one,” he said.
“So that’s why there was this rethink… even after the massive rethink and left-field selections and ‘we must have pace’ and ‘we must have batters that put bowlers under pressure’, actually we’ve ended up getting exactly what we’ve had on virtually every other Ashes tour, and that’s what disappoints me because I thought this time, with this opposition, it might have been slightly different. It has been no different,” he concluded.
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