With English cricket, it tends to all boil down to one series – the Ashes. Every selection, every Test match, every individual performance, all done with the Test series against Australia in mind.
This is the same for the Australian team and it shows how big a series it is. The biggest in cricket without any doubt whatsoever.
With this in mind, Thursday November 25th 2010 is a very important date in the calendar – it is on this day that the first test between England and Australia gets underway in Brisbane.
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