Derek Pringle on how history offers England hope of another Ashes success this winter Down Under

Derek Pringle

For many England cricket supporters pondering the fate of this winter’s Ashes series, the symbolism will have been racking up of late.
Wasn’t it, for instance, England’s routing of Australia in the 2004 Champions Trophy at Edgbaston which stirred the belief and no compromise cricket that led to the Test team’s stirring reclamation of the little Urn 10 months later, the first time it had been in England’s possession for 16 years?
Many feel it was the...