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Article: Cricket: Hussain and Fletcher can only hope Australians have peaked too soon THE ASHES England's opening partnership will be crucial as world's best side set the standard in savaging of Pakistan
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 14, 2002
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AS ENGLAND'S cricketers excitedly pack their bags in preparation
for this winter's tour of Australia, events in Sharjah will not have
escaped them. If any of the 15 cricketers that leave on Thursday -
their captain, Nasser Hussain, is already in Perth for family reasons
- ever doubted the size of the task that lies ahead of them, a quick
glimpse at Australia's two-day drubbing of Pakistan will make them
think again.
It would be something of an understatement to say, after bowling
Pakistan out for 59 and 53, that Australia are warming up quite
nicely for the Ashes, and there may come a time soon where updates
from their games will be issued with a Government health warning.
The only shred ...