Subscribe to our channel: https://goo.gl/pqS0mLEngland can't tempt Alastair Cook back but the top order can at least try to bat like him. Do you know what England should do? Get down on their hands and knees and beg Alastair Cook to put down his microphone, come out of retirement and open the batting in St Lucia to try to salvage some pride from this wretched series. Cook has not picked up a bat since his perfect, emotional farewell at the Oval last summer and, in truth, he would never agree to return. But right now, nobody in this England Test team seems to have the application to bat properly in Test cricket like Cook did. No one looks capable of displaying the guts and character coach Trevor Bayliss admits have been woefully lacking during England’s Caribbean horror show. It was almost surreal to see England’s most prolific Test runscorer — looking as fit and ready to play as ever — sitting in the media centre at the Sir Viv Richards Stadium in his new role with the BBC as he watched one of his country’s most spectacular calamities unfold. The very old-fashioned but still valid attributes Cook always epitomised are precisely what have been missing in Barbados and Antigua, where the Wisden Trophy has been lost in fewer than seven days of cricket. There has been no stomach for the fight, no realisation England cannot always succeed in red-ball cricket playing the white-ball way. Instead there has been stubbornness, complacency and almost an arrogance about them. Yes, there are reasons why a domestic structure that has marginalised the first-class game does not produce Test batsman any more, just as the Twenty20 revolution has pushed the ultimate format into the margins and threatens the existence of the greatest game. And that is before the accursed Hundred comes into existence next year and sends an already crammed fixture list past bursting point. We will be playing Championship matches in February and October next to leave ‘summer’ free for the ECB’s huge gamble with our game’s future. That is not England’s fault but the point is these players are better than this. Much, much better than a side who lost all 10 wickets for 54 in their first innings in Barbados; all 10 for 161 in their second there; all 10 for 183 in the first innings here in Antigua and then, again, all 10 for 97 on Saturday when they must have known that even a lead of 130 would have given them a good chance of victory. Instead they could manage an advantage of just 14. Goodness, they have lost wickets in this series every 32 balls, which is an even worse rate than the 1985-86 tour that is commonly regarded as their worst ever in the Caribbean. Truly, they have been more desperate here than even England sides playing against the greatest of all West Indians. It is a real low. But for an example of how it should be done, England do not even have to look up to the press box to try to persuade their former captain, who deserves to be left in peace to enjoy his new life, to come and rescue them. Step forward Darren Bravo who, since calling West Indies board president Dave Cameron a ‘big idiot’ on Twitter nearly three years ago, has been spending much of his time in international exile playing Twenty20. Yet Bravo, who hit five sixes in one over during a Caribbean Premier League match last year, was discipline personified in surviving all Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson and Ben Stokes could hurl at him on an unsatisfactory pitch to reach the slowest Test 50 this century and set up West Indies’ triumph. Now that is adapting. England have to prove they can do what Bravo did and have a Plan B, to find the right blend of defence and attack and sell their wickets much more expensively. It is something they have failed to do ever since Bayliss said on taking up his post that he prefers two ‘positive’ players in his top three. Those words have come back to haunt the Australian, whose methods have still not resonated with England as