England’s players once again becoming victims of their introspection

Ashes scars run deep. So deep that an enraged Allan Border melted down in the Gabba dressing room after losing the first Test of what was a disappointing 1986-87 series for Australia.

So, as the 1989 Ashes tour approached, Border and his senior players went to work planning England’s demise. Border later conceded that having failed as captain in successive Ashes series, after also losing in 1985, a similar result would leave him little choice but to resign. So having bundled up inexplicable selection decisions, largely inept batting, mannequin-like fielding, and a savaged spinner, England headed off to Adelaide for the day-night Test with all their eggs in one basket.Over-rested pace veterans Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad will be expected to take England on a journey they haven’t successfully traversed in 67 years, to come back after losing the first Test at the Gabba to claim the series.

But perhaps the most comical moment was England’s first outing of the tour, a festival friendly against an Invitation XI at Lilac Hill on the outskirts of Perth. A young and gangly Steve Harmison bowled seven wides in a row amid his 16 for the day.At the start of the tour during an interview with Harmison, I asked who his cricket idol was. He looked at me blankly and replied: “I haven’t got one. I follow Newcastle United.

It often starts after a first-Test flogging in hot and steamy Brisbane then drags on through the weeks of a five-Test roasting.The hangdog look, the whinging about the beer being too cold and the weather too hot, the pitches too hard and the Kookaburra balls too soft.

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