BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

Hello, welcome to Five Life Cricket. The Men's Ashes is over and as you might expect with

another England batting collapse, they lost the final test in Hobart by 146 runs and

therefore lost the series. For Neil, former England batten Michael

Carbri with us for the next hour, so to West Indian T20 World Cup winner Carlos

Brathwaite and we'll look at where it went, so badly wrong for England. This series will

also preview the women's ashes with Kate Cross and we'll look at the legacy of Virat Kohli

following his departure as Indian test captain.

Two perfect guess for Five Life Cricket, Carlos, with a sort of being able to be impartial

and not just look at it straight from an English point of view.

And Michael, give it, give it all of your experience as a former England batten, as an experienced

country cricketer and now a batting coach, we can delve into so many different layers here

can't we, of where the problems are within the game as a whole?

Yeah, I think, I've had this discussion for quite a few people, or Z and Light, what's

happened. And I think the problem is in a couple of parts, you've got what I call the

top down view and then you've got the ground up view. And let me start with the top down.

Obviously 2015, we didn't have a great one day set up, we were dumped out of the 2015

World Cup. And you know, the Whiteball Cricket in England was in a bad place and obviously

since that time there's been a lot of investment from the ECB and you Strauss or Z came in and

made it almost his mandate to, you know, he said, right, we want to win the next men's

World Cup in 2019. And it was an incredible journey. Obviously we all tuned in and watched,

you know, the boys perform as well as they did over many years. And unfortunately, there

...