When post-War England thrilled to the tour by Bradman’s Invincibles

Paul Edwards continues his look into the Ashes archive by featuring that most storied of Australian tours which featured the most famous single moment in the history of cricket – the final-innings duck of the man who rarely failed

England in 1948. A country which has won a war yet all but bankrupted itself in doing so; a battered land of shortages and rationing. Although sport offers something of a release, little of it is shown on television and fewer than one in 20 of the adult population has access to a se...