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Past Ashes Tours: 2006/07 – A series England would like to forget

People will say things started going wrong for England from the very first ball of the series when Steve Harmison’s opening delivery at Brisbane ended up in skipper Andrew Flintoff’s hands at second slip without any assistance from on-strike batter Justin Langer.

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Adam Hopkins casts his mind back to the brutal 2006/07 tour

People will say things started going wrong for England from the very first ball of the series when Steve Harmison’s opening delivery at Brisbane ended up in skipper Andrew Flintoff’s hands at second slip without any assistance from on-strike batter Justin Langer.
However, you could argue that the tour started unraveling well before the first Test.
England lost their opening tour match, a 50-over affair against the Prime Minister’s XI, by 166 runs.
They were bowled out for 181 in pursuit of 348, Phil Jaques having stroked a 110-bal...

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