Wonderful pointlessness, and the dullest Twenty20 team of all time

Two separate Chris Tavare references in this blog, you lucky, lucky things
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England and Australia renew a rivalry older than time itself today in a bizarrely scheduled and/or financially advantageous series of one-day internationals, perhaps the least eagerly anticipated England-Australia showdown since the Sydney and London offices of accountancy firm Scraghound, Flude & Prink met for an Ashes year-end ledger-off in 1984. Nevertheless, with the national football team co...