Death of Bazball: Five things we learned from Ashes series

AFP Sport looks at five key takeaways from the series: Death of Bazball? England came to Australia with genuine hopes of a first away Ashes series win since 2010-11 with their aggressive "Bazball" approach. But it quickly unravelled on treacherous batting pitches and in the face of consistently good Australian bowling. They slumped 2-0 down after just six days of cricket with crushing eight-wicket defeats in Perth and Brisbane, and the knives came out for coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes.