Sri Lanka v England: batting coach Graham Gooch throws support behind under-fire captain Andrew Strauss He is also one of the two best opening batsmen in the country, along with Alastair Cook. I have every confidence in him. I see the passion in him, I see the commitment every day on the training pitch trying to improve his game. Yes, he's been short of runs and he's had a little bit of a lean time in Tests but he scored a hundred in the last match so he has had runs under his belt and he's been practising well. There have been plenty of captains down the years who have struggled. What we have to do is to remain faithful to all our players and believe in their ability. England were this morning waiting on the results of scans to determine the fitness of seam bowler Stuart Broad. Broad is carrying injuries to his left ankle and right calf and looked in visible discomfort while batting on day four of the first Test. With the next match due to start on Tuesday and England favouring a two-man seam attack, Broad would have to be passed fully fit to have any chance of playing. Meanwhile, former England captain Michael Vaughan says Strauss' team were guilty of "basic schoolboy errors" in Galle, and rejected the current skipper's assertion that improvements had been made playing against spin, regardless of the defeat. "They've lost four on the trot, I don't see a huge amount of improvement," Vaughan said. We've seen against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, they were up against a quality Pakistan bowling attack. This Sri Lanka attack, I hate to say it, is just orthodox, what you'd describe as a decent attack, nothing more than that. I'm not for one minute suggesting the ECB haven't moved the team forward - everything about the team is professional - but just put it into context: they've lost four games this winter, and the cricket hasn't been that good and we haven't seen a huge amount of improvement. And we've seen in this game probably more mistakes than we've seen in Abu Dhabi, there really was some basic schoolboy errors, and that's something that will disappoint the team.