Post-Ashes one-day encounters would gain some real meaning with schedule switch

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The one-dayers are suddenly upon us. So the English suffering may go on at the hands of the relentless Australians at the MCG on Sunday. But who cares? That’s not being sulky just cos we got obliterated in the Ashes. It’s just how it is. Even the endless columns of Aussie gloating in the print media appear to have dried up – for now. It just seems exhausting having to put up with more cricket  after the main event has left town. And most of it will be meaningless. And very soon forgettable. The Aussies have done their job – and done it with ruthless intent. Now they are looking ahead to the mega-series away to South Africa next month. Even I will be more interested in that coming combat than the imminent incursion of one-day slogs. It’s a shame cos it doesn’t have to be this way. If the…

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