On 09/01/11 19:44, John Hall wrote:
Many of the coldest winters in the UK over the last 100 or more years
have coincided with an England cricket tour of Australia:

1894-5
1928-9
1946-7
1962-3
1978-9
(2010-1)

An Ashes tour doesn't guarantee a hard winter, as many coincided with
mild or average winters. But ignoring the war winters of 1916-7 and
1939-40, the five completed winters listed above are the coldest five in
the record from 1894-5 onwards.

Is there any correlation between cold winters and England performing
well in Australia? I heard someone on the radio a few days ago
suggesting that they usually did well when there was an El Nina event as
this tended to provide them with weather and therefore pitches which
were more suitable for their style.

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