BALLANCE MUST DIG DEEP TO ESCAPE THE L.C.S

DEREK
PRINGLE

Welcome back! After a profitable summer in domestic cricket, Gary Ballance has earned a place on the Ashes tour
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Gary Ballance probably doesn’t have fond memories of his Test debut at Sydney in January 2014. Sconned by Mitchell Johnson, he made just seven and 18 as England lost heavily and succumbed to their third whitewash in Ashes history. But four years is long enough for entire careers to play out and if he was pregnant with potential back then, he returns to Australia now very much ensconced in that dreaded place of re...

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