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  1. J

    Why no non-Ashes tours to Australia between 1953–54 and 1961–62?

    Thanks for that – no surprise the West Indies lost money as that tour saw the beginnings of intimidatory fast bowling which the West Indies were themselves to perfect a quarter of a century later. I would guess that, even with a spinner like Tayfield potentially an attraction eminently worth...
  2. J

    Why no non-Ashes tours to Australia between 1953–54 and 1961–62?

    One thing I have long noticed is that, excluding the Ashes tours of 1954–55 and 1958–59, there were no Test tours to Australia in the nine seasons from 1953–54 to 1961–62 inclusive. Whilst this fact is not new to me, I have wondered what the explanation for there being no non-MCC tours of...
  3. J

    England v Australia 1985

    That was exactly what they did for the 1990 season, although as Jack Bannister pointed out in his ‘Don’t Blame the Ball’ from the 1991 Wisden – an article I devoured for many years in the 1990s and early 2000s – that change was actually reverting to the seam used on balls from before about 1970...
  4. J

    England v Australia 1985

    It's notable that, whilst the 1985 Australian team was very likely the weakest team Australia ever produced for any Ashes series, the 1989 English team was similarly probably the weakest team England had produced for a home Test series. Thus, both the 1985 and 1989 Ashes sweeps say nothing about...

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