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Once more into the cauldron: Adam Hopkins on the Ashes winter ahead

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It’s the hope that kills you but it’s also the hope that makes you feel alive. For the best part of the last 50 years, hope is all that English cricket fans have been able to cling onto when faced with the prospect of an away Ashes.
This century in particular has made for grim reading where, apart from in 2010/11 when the visitors were by far the better side, England’s tours Down Under have been ...

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