Cricket: Hard graft for the holy grail The Ashes: Only the best of teamwork, tactics and talent will end England's long wait for fulfilment

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: October 25, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

As England embarked this week on their latest daunting quest to return the Ashes to their original, if long-forgotten, home, Graham Gooch warned of the necessity to start well. The tour manager referred specifically to the paramount importance of not losing the First Test in Brisbane because Australia are well-nigh impossible to catch from behind. But he might well have also had in mind that the whole series could all come down to the opening ball.

In the corresponding fixture four years ago, when England's hopes were being borne on a wing and a prayer of remarkably similar structure, Phillip ...

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