Ashes 2015: Australia hoping Anderson injury as pivotal as McGrath's in 2005

By Jesse Hogan, Birmingham
Updated August 3 2015 - 2:08pm, first published August 2 2015 - 8:00pm

Australia's bid to pick themselves up off the floor and salvage their Ashes bid is being helped by their belief the injury to masterful swing bowler Jimmy Anderson will be as much of a blow to England's chances as the loss of Glenn McGrath was to theirs a decade ago.

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