The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is set to meet later on Tuesday with coach Chris Silverwood likely to pay the price for the team's Ashes debacle, a report in dailymail.co.uk said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Joe Root-led England Test side lost the Ashes 0-4 with the tourists barely managing to save the fourth Test at Sydney mainly due to the efforts of tail-enders Stuart Broad and James Anderson.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
ECB managing director Ashley Giles has been tasked with examining the reasons for England's debacle Down Under and former captain Andrew Strauss -- who is the ECB cricket committee's chair -- will review the report and submit his recommendations to the board.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The report also said that Silverwood and Giles had last week submitted a report on the losses to Strauss.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The recommendations of the 44-year-old Strauss, who attends the ECB's board meetings in his role as Chair of the Cricket Committee but does not have voting rights, are expected to have a big say in the decision on Silverwood's future and also the captaincy of Joe Root.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"Strauss will now present his recommendations on how England should move forward to the board, with Silverwood and assistant coach Graham Thorpe the likeliest casualties of the red-ball 're-set'," according to the report.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the event of Silverwood getting the sack, Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart could be made interim in-charge for the three-Test tour to the Caribbean in March, the report added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n