Derek Pringle takes a look at how batsmen faced up to the fearsome pace bowlers of the Eighties and Nineties

The sledging began a while ago but it certainly hotted up in the days before the Gabba Test - all standard fare before an Ashes series in Australia.
As ever, it became deeply personal with Nathan Lyon saying how “scared and broken” Matt Prior and some of the England players had been after facing Mitchell Johnson last time and how Prior had even wanted to fly home, a claim vigorously denied by England’s former wicketkeeper.
After that, we had just...