Adam Collins reveals the English connections of two batsmen who have made their mark in India

Peter Handscomb is a proper Melbourne boy. He sounds like a Melbourne boy, in that nasal way we pronounce our vowels.
He looks like a Melbourne boy when laughing at meek sledging, a tell-tale sign of someone coming through the brutal Victorian cricket system. He dresses like a Melbourne boy, too, when out on the town. But there’s one glaring quirk. He doesn’t have an Australian Rules Football team.
In Melbourne, the home of Australia’s native footy code, that’s akin to askin...