Popping up in my Facebook feed are the latest Cricket Australia ads promoting something called the ‘Magellan Men’s Ashes’.

It turns out they are plugging tickets for the most iconic fixture on the world cricket calendar: the battle for The Ashes between the Australian and MCC cricket teams. Given England’s ascendancy at home this northern summer, and that Australia’s middle order folds like an accordion, it should be an interesting tussle, and where else to be on Boxing Day other than the MCG, as the first ball of the Boxing Day Test is bowled?

The strong odds that the Poms will hold...