By Richard Edwards

Hero: Len Hutton, right, led a morale-boosting victory

IT’S the summer of 1953 and the people of England are feeling pretty good about life. For the first time in a generation.
There’s a new monarch, the chains of post-war austerity are being loosened, albeit slowly, and the Ashes haven’t yet been lost.
After four draws, the two sides – the Aussies skippered by Lindsay Hassett and England led by Sir Len Hutton – are heading to the Oval with the series still in the balance.
After 19 years of Ashes pain that is some achievement in itself, bu...