At last there is a contest in this Ashes series, while action in New Zealand and South Africa shows the red-ball duel is in rude health: take note, ECB And here, as they used to say on TV game shows as that tumble dryer, that golden fondue set, drifts off down the conveyor belt is the Test cricket you might have had. Four distinct but interconnected things happened overnight as England and Australia played out the opening
