English Cricket Team in Australia in 1986-87

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    I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
    Norman Douglas (1868–1952)

    All cries are thin and terse;
    The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
    A cricket like a dwindled hearse
    Crawls from the dry grass.
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    Is my team ploughing,
    That I was used to drive
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    When I was man alive?
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