‘All the talking is done’: Ashes adversaries are ready for deeds not words

The phoney war was certainly ratcheted up a notch by Nathan Lyon but with the first ball at the Gabba fast approaching it is time to focus on what really may happen in the middle over the next seven weeksTo universal relief the phoney war is coming to an end. As Alastair Cook put it, “All the talking is done by Thursday” though he added that 95% of it passes him by anyway since he somehow seems to survive without being on social media. “But I did see that Luton won 7-0,”