Derek Pringle searches for precedents for the underdogs winning the Ashes and recalls a tour led by Allan Border
Cricket supporters, like anyone else seeking to predict the future, look back not just at isolated events but at patterns, those times when the similarities between then and now stack up to such an extent that, well…there is the chance of history repeating itself.
And so it is with the Australia side of 1989, under Allan Border, and the current England one of Joe Root. Border’s side arrived in England clear second favourites for the Ashes just as Root’s do n...