Assistant coach Graham Thorpe has become the third senior member of the England team management to be sacked in a bruising week for the side.
Thorpe has paid the price for serial batting failures in the Test side in which the team made almost eight times as many ducks as they did centuries in 2021.
His role in videoing a drinking session in the early hours of the morning following the Ashes series did not help his case with a spotlight on the drinking culture within the management, but it is cricketing performance on which he has rightly been judged.
