England’s limited-over captain Eoin Morgan has criticised his country’s Test skipper Joe Root for blaming The Hundred and T20 for the team’s crushing defeat in the Ashes recently, saying, “It’s laughable to point the finger at The Hundred”.

England suffered a 0-4 Ashes defeat Down Under, and only a gritty last-wicket partnership between Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson in the fourth Test at Sydney helped the tourists avoid a clean sweep. Root has since openly said that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has been prioritising limited-overs cricket at the expense of red-ball games, singling out The Hundred for criticism.