The tourists were dismissed for 223 on the third day at the WACA.

The defeats prompted rumours that Hussain may end his three-year tenure in charge.

But Hussain stressed: "The one thing I'm not going to do is walk away from this team in their present bruised and battered state and give it to some young lad and say 'you take them out there'.

"That would be really good for Nasser Hussain because I could just go and concentrate on my batting and it would be the easiest thing for me to do, but I would not take that option against this lot."

Hussain's stance follows strong backing from coach Duncan Fletcher following the last Test defeat in Adelaide last week, which prompted former Australian seamer Merv Hughes to suggest he should resign mid-series.

For now, though, Hussain is more intent on focusing on another losing Ashes series - England's eighth in a row, and the disappointment at being unable to compete with Australia for the second-successive series under his captaincy.

"I'm just very disappointed," he admitted. "We've been very poor in three games, there's no hiding behind excuses because we've not put the ball in the right areas, we've not batted particularly well and we've been outplayed completely.

"It's disappointing how we've let people down and let ourselves down. We were building up a decent side with a decent record and in the last two months everything has been taken away from us by a great Australian side, by our own inadequacies at times and by an injury situation that's been unbelievable.

"The only thing I'd change in this series is the toss at Brisbane because I've always thought we've done things that we thought was best to win Test matches - you won't always get things right as captain but as long as you're doing it for the right reasons then you carry on doing it."