5 captains who lost their job because of an Ashes failure

4 Mike Denness

Former England batsman Mike Denness, who is perhaps most well known for handing out bans and fines to 6 India cricketers back in 2001 in his capacity as ICC match referee, had also been the captain of his national team.

Denness' first Ashes as captain in 1974-75 turned into a bit of a nightmare as Australian fast bowlers Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson left the visitors shell-shocked in a display of brutal fast bowling that ended in a 4-1 defeat for England.

Denness was in horrible form himself and had to drop himself from the side after a string of low scores. He did not lose the captaincy after the series, but when Australia visited England in the summer of 1975, they defeated the hosts by an innings and captain Denness was finally fired.

He scored in single figures in that Test and was never selected to play for England again.