Wisden Cricket Monthly Australia correspondent @collinsadam
Australia haven’t won an Ashes series in England since Steve Waugh’s side won 4-1 in 2001
When padding up to write this column, consecutive tweets jumped out from my timeline. One was from the new South African T20 competition, the mini-IPL, expressing excitement about its opening day – hashtagging a betting shop, of course. The next was a piece from The Age newspaper in Australia quoting ICC chair Greg Barclay with his low-key concession that “not everybody is going to be able to play Test cricket” in the future.