The Sunday Telegraph London, December 10th, 2006
IT WAS a start. England's players had to begin hauling themselves off the floor yesterday, and they did so. Nothing fancy, nothing flash, just disciplined cricket which they played at a lively tempo and most of them enjoyed, having arrived in Perth more crushed and crestfallen than any England team I have seen in 30 years.
It was the kind of cricket which England played against Pakistan last summer, when again Andrew Strauss was captain. It was the kind of cricket which their supporters must hope England will play after the losing stops and they depart from Australia. An acorn of a day, and a...
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