Keepers of the flame rekindle Ashes yarns
It was a night to remember at the MCG as old Victorian cricketers from Ashes series spanning 60 years turned back the clock.
Kanishkaa Balachandran
It was a night to remember at the MCG as old Victorian cricketers from Ashes series spanning 60 years turned back the clock.
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Cricketers have longer careers than most sportsfolk, and so its generations are more closely linked. Colin McDonald, 77, remembered a brave century made by his opening partner, the youthful Bill Lawry, on a Lord's pitch made treacherous by a ridge in 1961.
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Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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