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25 years on and the pain is fading …

Next week marks the 25th anniversary of the end of what became known as the “Tour of Hell”. Jon Newcombe talks to some of the players whose Test careers were over before they barely began as a result of the frightful hammerings at the hands of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

Socially it was phenomenal, on the pitch it was very sobering. Twenty five years ago this summer England travelled to the other side of the world but found the leading southern hemisphere teams to be on a different planet.
Having had New Zealand, Australia and South Africa over the previous autumn, it was Englan...

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