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Key Takeaways
- 1📊 Zak Crawley averaged 27, while Ben Duckett failed to pass 50
- 2🏆 Travis Head’s impact underlines his all-format batting credentials
- 3💡 Jacob Bethell’s late emergence raises big selection questions
- 4🔮 England face a hard reset before their next home Test summer
"Find out who got a 10 and who is facing an uncertain international future with our Ashes player ratings."
Another Ashes is done, another urn stays in Australia. For England, a 4-1 defeat leaves more questions than answers, while Travis Head walks away looking like an all-format monster. Time to dish out the player ratings that will sting in the English dressing room.
England’s crossroads and Head’s rise to all-format elite
Zak Crawley – 5 – A series average of 27 felt inevitable given his career trend. There were flashes of the flowing cover drives that have teased England fans for years, but once again he didn’t quite cash in. Backed heavily for this tour, he returns home with his place anything but secure for the northern summer.
Ben Duckett – 3 – Came in tagged as one of the world’s best all-format batters, leaves with his career at a genuine crossroads. No scores above fifty, key drops in the cordon and off-field noise from that Noosa video have all added up. With white-ball tours and the Indian Premier League on his plate, a proper break might have served him better than another whirlwind schedule.
Jacob Bethell – 7 – The big “what if” of this tour. Where has he been hiding? His impact once finally picked suggested England may have been sitting on a genuine asset all along. You can’t help but wonder how different things might have looked had he been trusted earlier in the series.
At the other end of the spectrum sits Travis Head, whose numbers and intent scream all-format stardom. The way he took on the new ball, manipulated fields and still shifted gears in the middle overs is exactly the template Indian fans have seen from Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill at their best.
For England, these ratings don’t just reflect a bad tour; they flag a looming reset. Spots that once felt safe are now under threat, and every poor shot or drop will be replayed in selection meetings before the home summer.
Indian fans watching this from afar will recognise the pattern – when a team refuses to refresh at the right time, tournaments like a home T20 World Cup can slip away. England now stand right on that knife edge.
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