Wait... is England ditching The Hundred?
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England lost that ashes series because they selected badly in the first two tests. They'd spent two years obsessing about the ashes and they got there and they weren't ready. I actually think the Covid restrictions were not suffocating until they got to Sydney, Melbourne. And without that ashes debacle, there'd be no Brendan McCollum, there'd been no Ben Stokes captain. England were in a much better place because of what happened on that till - probably Broad's career would have been over if it wasn't for those two coming in. It was like in the 1600s getting bled with leeches or something. Like, it's not pleasant at the time, but it
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