The Ashes: England coach Chris Silverwood calls for change to domestic structure

England coach Chris Silverwood hopes the manner of England's 4-0 Ashes loss will spark the change he believes is needed to improve their fortunes.

England were thrashed in the fifth Test on Sunday to complete another humiliating series defeat in Australia.

Silverwood said he wants to carry on as coach and backed captain Joe Root but said the English game «has to change».

«You look at yesterday and the whole series and you can't honestly say everything is alright,» he added.

«Sometimes you need disturbance to create change. We have certainly got that.»

England were completely outplayed throughout the series, only avoiding a whitewash by hanging on for a draw in Sydney in the fourth Test.

Silverwood, whose own decisions and position have come under scrutiny, said those running the game «need to find a way» of scheduling the County Championship throughout the season.

The majority of the domestic red-ball competition is currently played at the start and end of the season when conditions are favourable for bowlers, with white-ball competitions — the T20 Blast and The Hundred — played in the height of summer.

«By me speaking out about it and speaking to Ash [England's director of men's cricket Ashley Giles] and Tom [England and Wales chief executive Tom Harrison], hopefully we can get around a table and find a way to make this happen,» Silverwood, who has been in charge since 2019, told BBC Test Match Special.

«The encouraging thing for me is it has actually been acknowledged that this needs to happen now. What I would like to see is some action.»

The former pace bowler added: «Back when I was coming through you used to play throughout the year and up front it would be sporting and during middle of the summer it flattened out and