Source: www.theguardian.com --- Saturday, September 12, 2015
England’s assistant coach is impressed with the freshness the one-day captain has shown and it could tell against a tired Australia at Old Trafford on Sunday Back in May the chances of England going through the summer without being beaten in any of their series were about the same as the leader of the opposition sporting a beard. Yet as the two teams return to Manchester on Sunday for the final international match of the season an England victory against Australia will mean that no series has been lost against two of the better sides on the international circuit. Paul Farbrace, forever happy to chat, bubbling with enthusiasm and a vital midwife in England’s resurgence, admitted as much after the three-wicket victory at Headingley on Friday. “If at the start of the summer somebody said we would draw the New Zealand Tests, beat them in the one-dayers, win the Ashes and go into the last one-day game at Old Trafford locked at 2-2 we would have snapped their hands off and probably walked away saying: ‘Whatever they are drinking, I’ll have a pint of that.’†Continue reading... ...
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