Should 2025-26 go the way of some of the worst Ashes tours, this interlude will be a hearty stick to beat them with. It may already be one now, at 2-0 down and with three to play. But on Wednesday, an England squad - very much still together - embarked upon their first mandatory session of this trip.

It was a bumper game of PIG - a football-based keepy-uppy game, played in a big circle, with three strikes for each participant - on Noosa Heads Main Beach. The session was observed by plenty of other beach-goers, with this being the start of Australia's summer holiday. Naturally two paparazzi photographers were in tow, and a few journalists.

Local radio hosts "Archie and Bretz" from Sunshine Coast-based radio station MixFM took the opportunity for some Chris Moyles-era Radio One *banter*, d

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