Terrific Tongue's five-wicket haul sinks Australia
What are a few inches between friends?
England's pace attack will have collectively pondered, fretted and chewed the festive bowling fat on their journey from Adelaide to the Melbourne Cricket Ground this week.
And somewhere between common sense and desperation, they settled on a formula: bowl a little fuller.
In the first three Tests of this Ashes series in Australia, the average length of England's bowlers was 7.85m and, for the majority of that time, Australia's batters made hay as the hosts raced into a 3-0 lead in the five-match contest.
