HATTIE WAS ONLY FOUR WEEKS OLD but she was quick to learn the anguish of following an OVERSEAS ASHES series.
Shortly after tea on the first day of the first Test in Brisbane in 2010, my plan to stay up all night watching cricket with my first-born having been squashed by sleep, I was woken by a sharp cry from her cot. Like any anxious new father, my first reaction was to turn on , where I discovered that Alastair Cook had just edged to slip, followed in successive balls by the wickets of Matt Prior
