Sam Pilger remembers the Boxing Day Test from seven years ago, where things couldn’t have gone much better for England

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Party time: England celebrate the win in Melbourne that retained the Ashes PICTURE: Getty Images

England had arrived in Australia for the 2010-11 series determined to find redemption after the embarrassment of being whitewashed 5-0 in the previous series there four years earlier.
Several of the touring party, including the captain Andrew Strauss, Paul Collingwood, and Kevin Pietersen, still had the scars from that miserable tour but rather than act a...