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Ashes gossip column: Stories & rumours from international media

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Sunday, 5 January

"With Nathan Lyon leading the song, it was a very different scene to the one here three years ago, where legions of the Barmy Army celebrated England's victory by singing their own ditties and doing the famous sprinkler dance invented by Graeme Swann," writes former England all-rounder Derek Pringle in the Daily Telegraph after Australia's 5-0 Ashes whitewash of England was completed in Sydney. "This time it was a deluge that hit England and one that never smelled of sweet success."

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Former England captain Mike Atherton, the chief cricket correspondent in the Times, writes: "There is a drink and drive campaign in these parts, with billboards splashed all around the Sydney Cricket Ground, and it asks of the locals 'What's your plan B">