There are many aspects of the Ashes rivalry in which Australia can lay claim to fair supremacy.
They have won more series, 34 to 32, and, by a more emphatic margin of 140 to 108, more Tests as well. The greatest Australian teams, Don Bradman’s Invincibles and the early 2000s vintage, were better than any collective England have ever assembled in opposition. In Bradman, the country bred the game’s best-ever batter and, in Shane Warne, probably its best bowler, too. But all-rounders? Well, they have tended to be England’s thing.