Tim Wigmore believes more thought needs to go into preventing tour matches from becoming tedious and irrelevant

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Easy money: England faced weak opposition in their three warm-up games on tour
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So far, then, so predictable. England’s first month Down Under has brought little surprise: three low-key warm-up games which went well enough, and then a Test in Brisbane which emphatically did not.
The two are inherently linked. Substandard opposition in warm-up games means that, even when tourists play three warm-up game...