If Joe asked for my advice, I would tell him to step down.
England are winless in nine games and have only won one of their past 17 and the pressure is on Test captain Joe Root.
They have lost their last four series, including a whitewash in the West Indies and a loss to the Aussies.
He has taken it as far as he can.
If he rings me in the next week and asks for some advice, I would tell him to step down.
Will England be worse off without him as a captain? They are going to get his runs and a senior player.
I don't think there is a better role model for English cricket.
In 64 Tests as England's leader, Root has won 27 games, more than any other captain, but lost 26 of them.
He said on Sunday that he was very passionate about taking the team forward and that he had the support of the changing room.
The England cricket team is without a head coach and a director of cricket after both Chris Silverwood and Ash Giles left their posts.
The captaincy and permanent appointments are expected before the next Test against New Zealand.
He deserved the right to go on his own ground and I wouldn't want the new director of cricket or head coach to sack him.
I don't think he has been helped during his reign. He had the Ben Stokes incident, then we had the white-ball reset, then he had Covid and it was very difficult.
I think captains should be proud of how much potential they have in the changing room. Why did the team perform so poorly under their potential? It would be a real concern for me.
He has been poor. Joe has not been able to grab a game. He will need someone who can drive the tactical side of the game with him if he continues.
If he took up the vacant head coach role, former England assistant coach Paul Farbrace told 5 Live that it was probably time for a change.
He is still England's best player, but we need someone else. Farbrace said that he may think differently when he gets home.
James Anderson, who is England's all-time leading Test bowler, said that if you get the right people in those two jobs above him then he can still do a really good job.
In the West Indies, he showed a real drive and determination to turn things around.
There is a concern that a ready-made replacement would be hard to find, with the most experienced having deputised for Root while he was at the birth of his child.
The suggestion that England may opt for a shorter-term solution like Stuart Broad, who was left out of the West Indies tour, was made after Ben Stokes said he had never really had an ambition to be a captain.
I don't see a replacement for Root doing the role long term.
Whoever gets it now could do it for a few months or until next year.
Broad is not the most stupid suggestion because we don't have a lot of money.
It is the first time in my lifetime that we have not had a future England captain playing and that is a real concern.
Farbrace said that Broad was a good option and that he was the obvious option.
We may have to go short term and someone like Broad may be a good option for a year or so to get England winning again.
Picking a player just to be a captain is not something we can do. It has to be someone that is worth their place and someone who is going to consistently play in the next 12 months, that is why Broad and Stokes are the only two options.
West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite does not think that England should add to the workload of Ben Stokes, with the 30-year-old a key component of the side in all three formats.
I don't think Ben Stokes can do it for a long time because of the amount of energy he puts into the game.
He is a leader and there are certain players like Stokes and Bairstow who don't need the title of captain to be a leader or help drive the culture.
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