At Birmingham station, the commuters are still on their way to work. “2005, 2005,” bellows a half-cut man in a sunhat. “Shuttle bus to Edgbaston” reads the sign held by the steward on the receiving end of this one-date tirade. “2005,” the man yells again, his face inches from his target’s face. The steward smiles imperceptibly.
Everyone here is thinking about 2005, the last time the Ashes triggered such excitement. “It’s so nostalgic,” explains Sam, 34, drinking at the back of Edgbaston’s Hollies stand. “There hasn’t been fever like this since 2005. This is the biggest fever ever.”
This is the biggest fever ever. In 2005, I was ten. I’ve never really followed cricket. But on the way to the stadium a man asks me
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