Ashes in Australia

The Ashes series has started (with 19 wickets falling on first day - see summary). Playing the Ashes series in Australia has a particular significance because it was on the 1882-3 tour in Australia that England first tried to regain the Ashes after English cricket had ‘died’ by losing for the first time to Australia at the Oval earlier in 1882 (see Wikipedia entry). 

I got carried away in the Covid period by posting an entry on this blog for each day of the first two tests of the last Ashes series in Australia (see previous post for last in the string). But enthusiasm for posting withered away with the continued poor England results. This situation eventually led to the Bazball revival over recent years. I won’t repeat my posting frenzy but hope that England can win in Australia for only the second time this century.