SELF-HELP WAS KEY FOR ATHEY AND ‘86/7 PARTY SET

By the time England take the field at the WACA for the last Ashes Test to be played at the home of Western Australia, anyone not aware that they have only ever won once on that ground will just not have been paying attention.
Doubtless, Joe Root and his players will also be fed up to the back teeth of hearing that England’s solitary victory there took place 39 years ago, before any of the current squad had drawn breath, and then against a team so denuded by defections to Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket that it starred ...