With the Ashes gone, it is now damage limitation for England. But what can be done to prevent further losses Down Under?

County cricket idyll: But tracks must be quick not just picturesque Inset: Sussex’s George Garton
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England will chew over their Christmas lunch in Melbourne with a sizeable task looming ahead of them as they try to avoid losing the final two Ashes Tests and succumbing five-nil.
It would be the third time in four series, stretching across 11 years, that an England cricket team has travelled to these shores and failed to win a Test.
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