Don’t push skipper root into stepping up to three if he’s happiest at no.4

Peter Hayter continues our in-depth analysis of cricket’s most enduring contest

THE ASHES

With Joe Root’s England squad arriving Down Under this weekend at the start of their campaign to retain the Urn, Peter Hayter assembled a distinguished half-dozen to form The Cricket Paper’s Ashes panel, two of whom took part in England’s 2005 victory over Australia, a series rated one of the best of all time.
Six Ashes veterans, six questions.
And Mark Butcher, Dominic Cork, Ashley Giles, Steve Harmison, David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd and Jack Russe...

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