After Onions made him weep, Frank Gregan is hoping that Andrew Strauss and co. can save him from the poorhouse... He also has some novel ideas for scheduling future Ashes tours...

It's time to eat a large portion of humble pie. For the last three months on a fairly regular basis I have used this column to poke fun at the beleaguered England team. Even when they created history and won the one day series in the Caribbean no credit was given to Andrew Strauss and his men here -