Few records in cricket can be regarded as an unbreakable – although six sixes in an over has to be one – but I find it impossible to imagine, in a two overs per side game, how any team could surpass the Australians’ monumental total on a sunny Saturday in May 72 years ago. We… Continue reading
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When Bradman’s “Invincibles” came to Worcester – cricket as national balm in 1948
“A field cannot be set to such genius, with the ability, in the twinkling of an eye, to find the exact stroke to any chosen part he may select. Bradman in true faith can play any stroke at will.“ At the opening of the 1948 cricket season, as the nation still endured a brutal… Continue reading →