Graeme Smith has a penchant for getting rid of England captains but Michael Clarke (and Mitchell Johnston) has gone a huge step further seeing off two top Anglo/South African batsmen, the "world's best spinner" (apart from Sajid Akmal) and apparently England's greatest ever coach (thought that was Duncan Fletcher).
What a shambles of a tour but now England have a chance to rebuild and Cook is obviously the man they want to lead the team for the considerable future so I guess that's why KP had to go.
One thing England have to do is to build a team to win every series not just the Ashes and the talk of this team achieving everything is nonsense as they couldn't beat the Winides away, New Zealand away, got hammered by Pakistan and are nowhere near beating South Africa. But, hey, they won the Ashes so they must be a great side.
By the looks of things Ashley Giles is going to be the next coach/director of the team and he's certainly a safe pair of hands although, like the captain, lacking charisma. I would imagine a lot of younger players will come in with Cook, Bell and Broad being the "brains trust" and Anderson will probably be given a chance in the summer to find a bit of form. They have a lot to do though as they have to find a few batsmen, decide on who is going to keep wicket and find a decent spinner. Pace bowling wont be a problem if they get the selections right and Stokes should be a top all rounder for many years to come.