Bayliss: England’s future is bright after Ashes success

“I’ve hopefully got a lot of cricket ahead of me”, said Bell.

“Ian is a wonderful player”.

“I haven’t actually heard exactly what Belly has said but he’s a class player and I hope he’s around for a few more years”.

He immediately took his Ashes hopefuls off for a bonding and catching-practice trip to Spain, where they fine-tuned gameplans and motivational mantras.

In his column for The Telegraph, former England great, Geoffrey Boycott also urged Bell not to make any hasty decisions in the upcoming few weeks.

“I think it’s such an emotional time over the last 10 days in terms of emotional highs and what we’ve just experienced here”.

Bell, 33, has a young family to consider and could take the opportunity to not only bow out at the top but step down to take the captaincy of Warwickshire – something he has previously stated he wants to do.

Although the Ashes continued a growing trend of Test teams struggling when playing away from home, Cook is confident England are developing into a side capable of thriving in all environments.

England played only one specialist spinner in the Ashes series against Australia – who was the all-rounder Moeen Ali. Alex Hales is would be the other option.

With Lyth unlikely to feature against Pakistan, there is a vacancy to partner Cook at the top of the order.

England refused to let the small matter of a crushing innings defeat in the final Investec Test get in the way of celebrating their 3-2 Ashes success.

Like the fireworks which accompanied the lifting of the urn, emotions were flying in all directions yesterday with the retirements of Michael Clarke and Chris Rogers marked respectfully by a huge Oval crowd.

England understand their limitations.

The 258-8 before the break became 268 all out with Peter Siddle taking 4-35 including the last man Moeen Ali.

“I think Jos (Buttler) summed it up yesterday, saying we were probably five per cent off and didn’t quite have the same intensity from both sides, but Australia played better than we did”.

We didn’t play very well in two matches so we’ve got some hard work to do but tonight we’ll enjoy this moment.

“That’s the message to any of those types of players in county cricket”. “People have tickets to for today to watch a whole day’s play”. We were off the pace in this game but I’m not going to worry too much if I’m brutally honest.