And so 2009 is welcomed in against a backdrop of light snow, like a dusting of icing sugar on a festive biscuit. In the distance, through the gloom, the Ashes can be seen massing on the horizon like an anti-climax waiting to arrive.
Our trip in the time machine (the drivers look so much younger than they used to be) takes us now to May 2005 and the unlikely prospect of some sunshine. This was back at a time when Star Wars Episode III was hitting screens in the US, Liverpool were champions of Europe and Israeli soliders were painting the skies with fireworks. How time flies...
UCLES took to this fresh new field as an impressively-strong looking Linsdell, Robinson, Danson, Hall, Dagless, Siyambalapitiya, Ordish, West, Monk, Skipper James and Bean.
