"The Invincibles," The Greatest Ashes Side Ever
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As the eagerly-awaited first Ashes Test gets underway at Edgbaston this weekend, we look back 75 years to Don Bradman’s last tour to England.
It was 1948 and “The Don” was approaching 40. This is the story of “The Invincibles,” one of the greatest teams to ever tour England.
The last test cricket England and Australia played before the world plunged into the Second World War was a disaster for the Aussies in general and skipper Don Bradman in particular.
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