DEREK PRINGLE

The Ashes may have gone, but for the first time in the series England’s senior players turned up in force during the early part of a Test match to put Australia under pressure.
Alastair Cook was the most notable contributor among England’s grandees, scoring his 32nd Test hundred, a daddy too after it had stretched to 244 by the close on day three.
James Anderson and Stuart Broad also ‘came to the party’, as Duncan Fletcher would say, sharing seven wickets between them. Indeed, Broad’s four for 51 was his best return of 2017.
As it is the festiv...