The Ashes | Things are challenging but it's an opportunity for us to come tightly as a group: Root

England have had a pretty tough time in the on-going Ashes tour in Australia. The Joe Root-led side has already lost the five-match series after suffering defeats in the first three games. 

Not just on the field, but the England team has been on the back foot off it as well. Four coaches including the head coach Chris Silverwood have been in isolation. But the skipper Root has said that it’s an opportunity for the players to come tightly together. 

"With the amount of coaches we've had missing, it's made things slightly disjointed and challenging," Root said.

"But it's an opportunity for us as a group to come tightly together, help each other prepare as well as we can do, and stand up in a bit of adversity and use that in a positive way when we get out there.”

Talking about his future as captain, Root insisted that he would rather think about it after the tour and wanted to focus on the remaining fixtures. 

"I'll look at my future beyond this tour at the end of it," Root said. "Don't think that's a distraction that should be around the group or I should be wasting energy on right now. I need to make sure I'm throwing everything I can into these next two games, I owe that to this team and the players."

The fourth Test is scheduled to begin on January 5 in Sydney.