England, please be competitive. The Ashes’ claim to the greatest rivalry depends on it | Ashes 2025-26

Don Bradman was the subject of the first adult book I remember reading. In the mind of a primary school student, the injustice of an English captain ordering his countrymen to hurt a brilliant Australian was unfathomable. And so, like many, I came to hate England.

Anticipation for the Ashes? It…