All are into their thirties now and while Australia hope they can combine for one final Ashes thrust next winter, their best days together are behind them. Nor are they the only stalwarts missing.

With Travis Head set to open for Australia, Dinesh Karthik added that his early dismissal will be a huge sigh of relief for India.

Mike Selvey, then The Guardian’s cricket correspondent, wrote a piece relating Jimmy Anderson to the very first Test match ...