Time to send the urn down under

What do you do when an entire nation is collectively mourning the loss of the Ashes? Giles Smith, writing in The Times, offers an innovative solution:

Get the urn down there right now and start parading it around as soon as possible. Embed it in a huge, glass block in the middle of Melbourne, with a plaque on it: “The Ashes: Holders — England.

Now that thought makes the Barmy Army's bus ride through Sydney look like a birthday gift.

Read also the thoughts of his fellow columnist in The Times, Tim De Lisle, who guesses what might actually change once everyone has gotten over their mighty hangovers.

But is this the mightiest hangover in history? Greg Baum, writing in The Age, casts a look back at some epic Ashes encounters while Martin Flanagan, in the same newspaper, celebrates a series that was a reminder of what makes cricket thrilling.