Barney Ronay: The first day at The Gabba rarely fails to set the agenda for an Ashes series, though England's problems have often been self-inflicted
January 6: John Howard, Sir Donald Bradman, Banjo Patterson, Rolf Harris, Richie Benaud, Dawn Fraser, Malcolm Conn, Kerry Packer, Dame Edna Everidge, your boys, took one hell of a beating... at last.
December 5: The Ashes postmortem. Point by painful point.
January 4: In praising Steve Waugh's combative innings and his resilience to suggestions of departure, Alec Stewart was making his own point.
January 1: No Shane Warne, no Glenn McGrath and possibly no Jason Gillespie: this is a scenario about which England can only have dreamed.
