HERE COMES THE SUMMER

Ahead of a bumper summer of Ashes action, we’re back! By Taha Hashim

BEFORE we get into what’s to come, let’s rewind to 2019, to the last time the urn wound up on these shores, to when Steve Smith and Ellyse Perry were immovable and Ben Stokes went stratospheric.For all of Stokes' heroism and Jofra’s thunder, the men’s Ashes series was a slog at times, English minds and limbs exhausted after the exhilaration of their World Cup victory just a couple of weeks before that first Test at Edgbaston. For four years, that win was everything, to turn the...

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