Alastair Cook was one of the pundits queuing up to criticise the Boxing Day pitch, with 20 wickets falling on day one, but a case could be made that his batting was the root cause of this overly ...

LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) - England have not won an Ashes test match in Australia for nearly 15 years but their batting firepower could prove decisive in the series starting in Perth next month, ...