Broad’s Ashes dismissal of Warner reminds fans what might have been | Geoff Lemon

Dramatic rivalry should have been rekindled in Brisbane though England’s batting is so bad it would not have changed the result

When Stuart Broad took David Warner’s edge on the first day of the Sydney Test, into the slip cordon to be safely clasped, it felt like something clicked into place. This was the scent of a familiar dish, or YouTubing a favourite scene from a movie. The reassurance of the familiar, and the rightness of something that should be just so.

At the same time, there was the unmistakable sense that thousands of people across the world were shouting at their television sets that they had told you so, or told someone so, and why had nobody listened?