Cook, England wind back the clock
Suddenly, it was 2010-11 all over again, a day on which England could do no wrong. But how the English must wish they had done their time-travelling on the first day of this series instead of the 17th.
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Greg Baum
Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age
Newbie's no-ball is Warner's Boxing Day gift
David Warner had the latter of two laughs and the last in a series.
Dead rubber? Boxing Day Test forever has a pulse
A dead Boxing Day Test? C'mon!
Short memories: pace barrage offers painful reminder
When Phillip Hughes was so tragically struck down, it was an accident, a freak. He saw the ball and was playing a shot at it. When Jimmy Anderson was hit in the head by Pat Cummins in Perth, it was not an accident
Steve Smith: The man of many centuries
Steve Smith did not cure cancer or reverse climate change at the WACA Ground on Saturday, but it can only be a matter of time. The Australian captain has become such a weapon that England is thinking of building an intercontintal shield against him. Even Kim Jong-un is concerned.
Ashes furore: breaking what is not fixed?
The first lesson to draw from the London Sun's exposé of match-fixing is that it is one of those occasional journalistic exercises that by the fact of its publication guarantees that the story will not come true.
Ground zero now, but what a WACA
Surveying the newly released fixtures for the 1993/94 season one night in London, Australian captain Allan Border drawled: "First game away, I see."
Aussie skipper Steve Smith in a world of his own
Australia came with a plan to knock out England. England came with a plan to work out Australia. Between the two stood Steve Smith, who could not knock out England but would not be worked out himself, Smith who is never out, and so the first Test is level.
Telling it like it isn't: Deciphering languages of sport
Once on a train in the Scottish Highlands, I realised only after a while that the family sitting next to me was talking English. Mixing with sports people sometimes has the same effect. You hear what they say, and know that it is in English, but you don't have a clue what they are saying.
Ashes flashback: When Johnson terrorised England
It was one ball in a vast continuum, but it was freighted with the weight of many before it. The shove it gave Australia in the 2013-14 Ashes series created such momentum that a momentary advantage turned into a whitewash. In some respects, Steve Smith hopes, it has not stopped yet.
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