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History shows that experience is key to Ashes success

The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Settled: England won with a lot of experience in 2010/11

England have an Ashes tour team to pick and only a meaningless five-match ODI series against the West Indies to come (which starts with a special treat, a T20 in the evening at Chester-le-Street, with St John’s Ambulance on hand to deal with cases of hypothermia), to come. But if someone new does well in the ODIs, I would bet heavily on their making the Ashes trip for the Tests.
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