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Posted by Tomas on August 9th, 2019

You can tell yourself that everything is normal, and try to keep the same routine from every other Test match, but there is always something ufabet1688 extra special about an Ashes series.

Growing up, you want to play cricket for Australia in the knowledge the Ashes is the ultimate.

I'm told that, from an English perspective, there is a certain romance to following the cricket when the battle for the urn is in Australia.

Staying up late on cold winter nights to listen to the radio, or seeing television pictures of the dazzling Australian sunshine.

I can certainly recognise that feeling, only from the opposite point of view. Yes, our winters aren't as cold, and my arrival into the UK has been greeted by rain, but I remember my days as an academy player, staying up through the night to ufabet1688 watch the 1993 Ashes.

The next time Australia came here, in 1997, was my first tour. In the first Test, things didn't go to plan. We bowled the wrong lengths and England beat us convincingly.

The next day coach Geoff Marsh made us bowl for a couple of hours off our full run-ups to practice getting it right. From then on - we won three of the next four Tests to retain the urn - I always looked forward to coming to England and getting hold of the Dukes ball.

How would I feel if I was getting ready to play in this series, preparing myself to bowl at an England top three that is far from solid? Quietly confident.

England's recent batting in Test cricket hasn't been great. Just last week, they were bowled out for 85 by Ireland. Joe Root is a quality player at number four, but those coming in ahead of him haven't been settled for some time.

In the past, I bowled at players like Michael Atherton, Alec Stewart, Nasser Hussain, Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick, but England do not have a top order that has been successful Test after Test, series after series.

For that reason, I'd be champing at the bit to get the first Test started, hoping to begin well, because that can be 75% of the battle.

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