DEREK PRINGLE | @derekpringle

Australians used to be the only ones who disagreed with Stuart Broad’s pronouncements on cricket. Yet, recently, I too found myself at odds with something uttered by England’s second most successful Test bowler.
In an interview the other day, Broad said “it feels like the biggest build-up I can remember for an Ashes series.” If true, I have yet to feel the earth move.
It’s not that there’s been complete silence around the series, far from it – just that the whole thing, instead of being hot-blooded and emotional, seems a bit cold and transactional, an event to...