Up the M40 to Edgbaston went the travelling Ashes caravan.
A whole week of reminiscing about the greatest series in the history of the game starts, like all the great stories, with England getting a right shellacking.
To distract attention from the hammering South Africa are giving them, it seems England has instead simply invented a bunch of sports that mostly involve running really fast and invited some of their mates over to play. We are suspicious about why cricket isn’t included.
Meetings between South Africa and England are rarely dull; 2003 was no exception.
1991: Sweden wins the Eurovision Song Contest, Sega releases a game about a blue hedgehog who can run really fast and Ian Botham can’t quite get his leg over. Reminisce with us once more, as we look back at England taking on the West Indies.
It was twenty years ago today that the 1992 World Cup started; somewhere in suburban England, an eleven year-old boy was paying attention and dared to dream.
With India on the end of a 4-0 trouncing in Australia, one of our Indian contingent looks back to happier times.