'It's mind-boggling': England savaged over 'horrible' Ashes farce

Joe Root and the England cricket team are once again under fire for failing to get through the required number of overs on the opening day of the second Ashes Test.

England's players were fined the entirety of their match fees (a total of $300,000) and docked five World Test Championship points for their slow over-rates in the first Test at the Gabba.

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However there are calls for tougher punishments - including a suspension for captain Root - after England again fell short of the allotted number of overs at the Adelaide Oval on Thursday.

Play was supposed to finish at 9.30pm local time, but England had only managed to bowl 73 overs by 9pm.

Umpires were able to extend play for an additional 30 minutes, but even then the tourists fell one short of bowling the minimum 90 overs for the day.

It meant they cost themselves one over with the new pink ball under the Adelaide Oval lights.

England went with a four-pronged pace attack for the second Test, leaving out spinner Jack Leach.

Root bowled himself for 11 overs on Thursday, hustling through his deliveries in an apparent attempt to speed up the over-rate.

“He has brought himself on now and he’s bowling in at leg stump or down the leg side just to get through these overs,” Mark Taylor said on Triple M.

“How about getting a wicket or two and then taking the new ball? I think the tactics are terrible, they stink.”

Greg Blewett said on Channel 7: “They were way down in Brisbane ... surely that was their main point going into this bowling innings. It’s just mind-boggling.”

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Speaking on Fox Cricket, Shane Warne said captains should face being suspended for repeated over-rate infringements.

“I sit on the World Cricket Committee, and often talk about the over-rate issue and what’s the appropriate fine,” he said.

“A lot of us on that committee have talked about not having a fine for over-rates, but the captain misses the next game, because if you don’t bowl your overs in time, the financial penalties don’t seem to be working, and they haven’t worked for a while.

“In the first Test, the entire England team got fined their entire match fee, and they’re still miles behind in this match.

“What about the people that paid their money up in the Gabba to see a full day’s play of 90 overs? They’ve been robbed.

“If the captain doesn’t play the next Test if you don’t bowl your overs in time, you watch them get through the overs.”

Speaking after stumps, England assistant coach Graham Thorpe said the high temperates in Adelaide on Thursday made it difficult.

Thorpe also pointed to a lengthy DRS referral early in Australia's innings and the fact that certain batters seem to take extra time as reasons for England's tardiness.

“I think there’s bigger things going on in the world than over-rates,” he said.

“You get through as quick as you can – reviews are taking time to get through as well, sometimes batsmen aren’t ready.

“Minutes get lost throughout the day’s cricket. It’s just one those things in Test cricket.

“We’d like it all to be more perfect and everything, but it isn’t.

“It’s challenging at times – everyone thinks it’s straightforward getting through at the perfect time, but it isn’t. It’s much harder.”

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