The Ashes: England's greatest batting displays
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Your support makes all the difference.The 2010/11 Ashes are nearly upon us as England look to retain the urn against Australia.
As we build up to what is promising to be a hard-fought and competitive series, we bring you the greatest English batting displays seen in the Ashes.
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There have obviously been countless performances of merit, so we laid down a few ground rules. For a start, we've only looked at Englishmen (no Australians allowed). Second, only one performance from each decade (although this did lead to the omission of Wally Hammond's imperishable deeds in 1928-29 because 1926 took precedent and David Gower's wondrous summer of 1985 was overlooked because of a certain event at Headingley in 1981). And thirdly, only innings played when the Ashes were still at stake have been chosen.
What this leaves us with is a list of innings played by men who influenced or turned matches and series, who truly altered the destiny of the Ashes in England's favour.
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