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He says cost pressures have "never been as bad", adding "we're hammered from every direction" by skyrocketing sugar and chocolate prices, national minimum wage increases and rises in business rates.

If they don't, they will be 2-0 down and on the way to being defined as the same as all the other England teams hammered in Australia in the past 14 years.

It floated serenely at treetop height and was tethered with ropes to a circle of stakes that had been hammered firmly into the earth.

Once the boots are clean and customs is cleared, you enter the arrivals hall to be greeted by news crews, asking if you're going to enjoy getting hammered by Australia for three months.

On that occasion he was dropped after the first two Tests, only to return in the fifth as England were hammered 4-0.