The Spin | The 1920-21 Ashes: typhus quarantine and unseemly barracking

England’s men are struggling in India but the tour to Australia 100 years ago was beset from all sides and ended in a 5-0 defeatA hundred years ago on Monday, England’s fifth and final Test in Australia concluded, like the previous four, in defeat, ending a tour that started badly and went rapidly downhill, a voyage of Englishmen to Australia which was dealt its first blow when a man from Malta who had recently returned from Poland boarded a boat in Italy and disembarked in Sri Lanka