The Real Quiz
The Sydney files
Since 1975, England have picked 13 Test debutants for the last match of an Ashes series. Name them or GTFO.
Cricket
I only shake hands with fast bowlers
The Ashes
The longest day
Dead-rubber wins can taste just as sweet as the real thing - sometimes even sweeter
Cricket
Let me be your fantasy
In five seasons as Kent’s overseas player, Carl Hooper produced high art in industrial quantities. Shame he couldn't do it more often
The Real Quiz
Name the 24 players England used in the 1993 Ashes
And you wonder why Australia won 4-1
Joe Root
Forever young
Ten of Joe Root's best innings
West Indies
Form is permanent
During their 1992-93 tour of Australia, West Indies were on the brink of losing their long unbeaten run. Curtly Ambrose wasn't having that
Nuggets
Mind the wind, Tugga
The 28th man goes too far
Shane Warne
93 'til infinity
Shane Warne started his first Ashes tour as a relative unknown. By the end, England’s batsmen knew quite enough about him
Cricket
Will phallus
Edgbaston 2008, and the innings Graeme Smith was born to play
The Real Quiz
Name the 29 players England used in the 1989 Ashes
And you wonder why Australia won 4-0
The Ashes
There goes the fear
The genesis of England’s glorious 2005 Ashes victory was a 47-minute cameo three years earlier
West Indies
The whiff of danger
England went to the Caribbean in 1986 fancying their chances of an historic victory. A terrifying festival of chin music in Jamaica disabused them of the notion