ASHES winner Gary Ballance has been advised to trust his technique having lost his Test place following a barren run with the bat.

Ballance has been back with Yorkshire since being left out of the England team to play the third Test against Australia at Edgbaston late last month.

Since scoring 122, 77 and 81 not out in three of six innings during England’s early summer series in the West Indies, the left-hander only scored 134 in eight innings - four Tests - against New Zealand and Australia on home soil.

Despite an exceptional start to his Test career, the 25-year-old’s back foot technique has been heavily scrutinised, and criticised, by pundits left, right and centre, and he was dropped as Trevor Bayliss and Alastair Cook favoured Yorkshire team-mate Jonny Bairstow.

However, since returning to Headingley, Ballance’s four-day captain Andrew Gale has told him to back his technique, not sack it.

"I've not spoken to him in depth about technique because it's not my place, and he's such an experienced cricketer now,” said Gale, who has seen Ballance score two one-day fifties in eight innings in that format and Championship cricket in recent weeks.

“All I've said to him is 'if you've got something that's worked for you, back it’.

"There are perhaps a few little alterations that he might make, but you ask any batter, they are always searching for the perfect formula. He hasn't become a bad player in two or three months since the West Indies.

"He can probably see himself as a little bit unlucky with the record that he's got to be dropped after a couple of Tests. But it is what it is. I'm sure he will come back stronger for it.

"He's got a couple of decent scores for us since he came back, so he obviously still backs that.”

Since debuting in Test cricket in the final match of the disastrous 2013/2014 Ashes series Down Under at Sydney, Ballance has scored an impressive 1,194 runs from 15 matches with four hundreds and six fifties, batting mainly at number three in the order.

During the Caribbean tour, he became the third fastest English batsman to reach 1,000 Test runs in only 17 innings - behind Len Hutton (16) and Herbert Sutcliffe (12).

Gale said: "I don't think his technique's changed that much really.

“I think he's one of those players that when he goes through a bad trot, his technique's always going to be scrutinised because of the way he gets his runs.

“He's not an Ian Bell or Adam Lyth or Jonny Bairstow, who are easy on the eye.

"He's got a technique that is quite unusual. Even when he's batting well, he makes ugly runs if you know what I mean, a bit like a Jonathan Trott. He's always going to get his technique questioned.

"He's just gone through a bad trot, which is easy to do in Test cricket because you're not getting as many innings and you're always under the microscope.

“I think he's probably enjoyed being back here at Yorkshire and being in a more relaxed environment and just getting on with scoring runs.”

Ballance will play in Yorkshire’s next match, their final Royal London one-day Cup group fixture against Northamptonshire at Headingley on Tuesday.