Good Luck Boys.

Please God we don't repeat the 1920-21 Ashes series in Oz.

As the team pads up and the backroom support gets the linaments and linseed ready, I was reminded of a time just after World War One, when the scale of the cricketing disaster was almost beyond description. It was considered so dreadful that it was favourably compared to 1921’s worst solar storm worldwide, which destroyed telecommunication services; the…