A brushing of elbows, and debutants on the trot

Ricky Ponting and Mohammad Aamer attempt to break into a Scottish dance routine
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After a painstaking 98-year reassessment study following the botched triangular series experiment of 1912, neutral Test match cricket returned to England yesterday. It was, according to those who were lucky enough to see both Syd Gregory's Australia play South Africa almost a century ago, and their modern-day baggy-green descendants take on Pakistan, much improved on its previous incarnation. It was a ...