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By Chris Stocks
DAWID MALAN insists that far from sulking after losing the Ashes, England are desperate to regain some pride in next week’s Boxing Day Test against Australia.
The Middlesex batsman, fresh from his maiden Test hundred in Perth, is aware this tour is in a bad place after Joe Root’s men surrendered the Urn with an innings defeat at the WACA that gave Steve Smith’s Australians an unassailab...