Rain ruins England’s best efforts to all but wash away hopes of a result
Come to Australia, we’ve a chance at the Ashes, they said. Come to Australia, there’d be sun, they said. Unfortunately for us, and for England, just as it was with the T20s before, right at the moment that our appetites had been whetted and an intriguing future was in store, the rain came down. They don’t write this on the travel posters.


