Cricket: Matthew Hoggard will step out in front of a packed MCG on St Stephen's Day hoping England can emerge from their Ashes defeat to finally deliver an all-round team display.
The swing bowler has been one of the few England players to have stood out during the tour, claiming seven for 109 during the second Test defeat at Adelaide and is the tourists' leading wicket-taker with 12 victims.
Other players have also stood out during the series with Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen and Alastair Cook scoring centuries while Monty Panesar claimed eight wickets on his only appearance in Perth.
Those individual efforts have been the highlights of England's series so far, but they are yet to click as a team in a similar manner to the way they performed during their 2005 Ashes success.
But it is a performance that is overdue according to Hoggard as England prepare to play in front of 100,000 at the newly developed MCG and attempt to avoid an Ashes whitewash.
"It's been very upsetting, everyone is gutted at losing the Ashes," said Hoggard. "We wanted to come out here and play to the best of our abilities and I don't think we've done that.
"We've only played four and a half days of good cricket in Adelaide during the series, but Australia are a top side and you don't stay the top side for some time if you don't put in some good performances.
"We've got to prove to ourselves that we can beat Australia. We've shown glimpses of what we can do and we've had some good individual performances over the three games, but we haven't put in a big team performance."