Peter Hayter makes an impassioned plea for a suspension of all the hostility for this summer’s headline series and for smiles to replace the scowls
Not that it ever seems to stop, but the pre-Ashes hype began in earnest this week when Shane Warne looked forward to the resumption of “hostilities” by claiming he would feel somehow less complete if England’s cricket fans don’t verbally abuse the returning ball-tamperers Steve Smith and David Warner this summer.
It’s a tale as old as time; the beauty of the competition for the Ashes and the largely frie...
