Melbourne miracle of 1998 shows dead-rubber fourth Ashes Tests do matter | Rob Smyth

England’s victory on Test cricket’s longest day, as Darren Gough and Dean Headley bowled themselves into the ground and Ashes folklore, is a brilliant precedent for the current team after their surrender of the urnThe most frustrating thing about England in the 1990s was not how bad they often were, it was how good they could be when the handbrake came off. Victories were often achieved in spectacular style, especially against Australia. Although England lost every Ashes series in th