Harty on the Ashes and Albion’s Solly March

CONGRATULATIONS to chairman Jim May and all at Sussex CCC for, despite the horrendous weather on Saturday afternoon, almost three days of entertaining cricket against the Aussies over the weekend.

Even allowing for the aforementioned wet weather, I enjoyed a great day out on Saturday as guest of Nsure, and, during one of the extended rain breaks, I became embroiled in a very interesting discussion at the bar.

As much as we all enjoy bashing the Aussies at cricket, there has to be an argument for them enjoying, albeit after back-to-back Ashes wins, some kind of renaissance.

Otherwise, a sustained period of English domination could result in one of sport’s long-standing and greatest contests almost dumbing down.

I appreciate it wasn’t that long ago that Australia were dominant for what seemed to be a long time but, while our cricket at that time was on the wane, it was bad, but in the grand scheme of things n