The Ashes: Joe Root says England making same mistakes they made 4 years ago, 'Need to fight the whole game'

The Ashes: England captain Joe Root said that he is confident that his team has the resources to compete in Australia but they seem to be repeating the same mistakes they made the last time they toured the country. England had lost the series 4-0 back then.

England captain Joe Root rued the fact that his team was making the same mistakes they did "four years ago", which was the last time the Ashes was played in Australia. England had lost that series 4-0 and trail 2-0 in the ongoing series after losing the second Test by 275 runs on Monday.

England had earlier lost the first Test by nine wickets. Root said that the visitors have to be better with bat and ball and replicate the attitude they showed on Monday throughout the next three matches. "When we look at ball in hand, I don't think we bowled the right lengths, we needed to bowl fuller. As soon as we did that in the second innings, we made it harder for them. It's disappointing because we made the same mistakes that we made four years ago. We could have bowled better and should have batted better," said Root in the post-match presentation ceremony.