LIVE: Poms urged to axe 'frightened stiff' battler

Cricket fable Ian Chappell has called for England to axe Jack Leach and swap him with Dom Bess for the last Ashes Test, portion labelling the struggling spinner "not a Test bowler" and declaring he's "frightened stiff being connected the field".

Left-arm orthodox bowler Leach has had a woeful circuit of Australia, playing 3 of the archetypal 4 Tests for a instrumentality of 6-321 astatine 53.50.

England are yet to humor Bess, an off-spinner six years younger than Leach, successful this bid – but there's nary question successful Chappell's caput arsenic to who the tourists should back.

"Dom Bess is simply a competitor. Jack Leach is not a competitor, Jack Leach is not a Test bowler, he's frightened stiff being connected the field," Chappell said connected Wide World of Sports' Outside The Rope.

"Dom Bess, I think, wants to beryllium there. His assurance is down astatine the moment.

"The different guys they've got to look astatine are (Matt) Parkinson and (Mason) Crane, due to the fact that they're attacking bowlers.

"England look the incorrect mode astatine rotation bowlers. They've got Leach there. 'Oh, helium tin necktie down an extremity and support it tight'. Rubbish! You've got to get wickets astatine some ends. I don't attraction what Test lucifer you're playing; if you're not trying to get wickets astatine 2 ends you're doing thing wrong."