Matt Prior has criticised England 's batting after they suffered an all-too familiar top-order collapse in the first Test against the West Indies.
The Test is England's first since the Ashes, with their so-called red ball reset beginning after they were thrashed 4-0 by Australia.
However, they got off to a nightmare start, losing four wickets in quick succession and getting reduced to 48-4 after just 16 overs.
And Prior, who scored over 4,000 Test runs at an average of 40.18, was hugely critical of England's batting, stating that the current side simply has too many players with "basic flaws" in their technique.
"The problem for me is we're getting batsmen delivered at the England dressing room door that aren't ready to play Test cricket," Prior said on talkSPORT.
"They don't have a technique that is going to look after them in Test match cricket at the highest level.
"They've been thrown in the deep end, playing international cricket's tough enough as it is for reasons off the pitch.
"Everyone, like us, is talking about their technique and tearing it to pieces is hard enough. You need to have resilience and belief in your technique and too many of them have some basic flaws.
"Players in county cricket, players in ECB academies... that's where you learn your craft, that's where you learn how to score big runs.
"Averaging 30 is not good enough. Scoring 1000 runs in a county season is not good enough.
"If you want to have success at Test match level you have to be averaging 70, you have to be scoring near on 2000 runs a summer.
"Those are the standards that we have to get back to expecting from our batsmen. Granted there will be reasons for it and there will be county batsmen up and down the country swearing at me saying 'do you not realise hard it is?'
"I do, I get it but you've got to be good enough to deal with it."
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