It was Paul Collingwood who best summed up a rather different festive day at the MCG exactly 11 years ago. But he, like everyone in English cricket, must know this cannot go on. mused one respected observer in The Cricketer's George Dobell on Boxing Day and those words should send shivers down the spine of administrators now taking the enduring appeal of the Ashes for granted. It is time, as Steve Harmison said in these pages on Friday, for English cricket to press the reset button for red-ball cricket. And then days like Boxing Day 2010 at the MCG will become no more than a never to be repeated aberration.

Source: Daily Mail December 26, 2021 22:11 UTC