There are often single images that come to sum up entire Ashes series, and frequently they have been taken when no cricket was even being played. Andrew Flintoff consoling Brett Lee; Shane Warne’s balcony dance; the sprinkler; Ian Botham celebrating a miracle win at Headingley, Ben Stokes doing the same; and all the way back to the Oval pitch invasion in 1926.

And maybe this year’s has been taken, with England’s campaign in danger of being summed up by the footage of Jofra Archer arriving at the Gabba on Saturday clutching a pillow. The day Archer imagined and the one Australia subjected England to turned out to be very different . Sun setting on England’s Ashes dream as Australia close on second Test triumph Read more

With the home side six down overnight, the notoriously chilled

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