By Richard Edwards
We were walking along the beachfront in our training gear and we got stopped by an Aussie – he asked us if we here to learn how to play cricket properly,” says Mark Wallace, now Glamorgan’s Director of Cricket, but in the winter of 2001, an aspiring young wicketkeeper in the first intake of the England National Cricket Academy in Australia.
The tongue-in-cheek Australian may have been joking but he wasn’t a million miles away from the truth. Just two years before England had dropped to the bottom of the ICC World Rankings on a bleak afternoon at The Oval.
And beating Austra...