Ashes lessons so far: from Australia’s fab four to England’s failure to convert | Rob Smyth Read moreIt does not help much looking at the history books. England have been thrashed on their past seven visits to the west: even Andrew Strauss’s 2010-11 tourists were well beaten. He would not have been able to defeat the wind, but Gilchrist would not have tried because, unlike the Poms, he knew about the Waca. And the off-spinner can use the breeze to help drift the ball away from right-hander, thereby bringing first slip into play. In the past at the Waca it has always been possible to do that as much on length as width.

Source: The Guardian December 09, 2017 18:56 UTC