Shows of class and character will be what decides the Ashes, as it always has

In that series, a hardened group of senior players – Ian Redpath, Keith Stackpole, Ian Chappell, Doug Walters, Graham McKenzie, John Gleeson and Ashley Mallett – were joined by Rod Marsh, Dennis Lillee and myself. None of us knew it then, of course, but it was the start of an exciting era of…