Hello and welcome to the fourth episode of our mini-series

highlighting some great matches from Ash's history

as we build up to this next series in just a few days' time.

This episode tells the story of Australia's renowned invincibles who arrived in England in 1948

under the captaincy of Donald Bradman and were on a mission to destroy everything cricket-wise in their path.

And in many ways they succeeded, completing the sixth-month tour, having won 23 first-class

matches, including four tests, drawn eight and lost precisely none. They were the original

tour de force. But this episode is really about Don Bradman, his relentless

achievements, his remorseless attitude, his relationships with his teammates, his motivations,

the things he did and said, and the revenge he took on England after the indignity and

humiliation of the Bodyline series, until his final innings anyway.

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This episode starts with the legacy of the Bodyline series and the disgraceful treatment of England's hero from that triumph, Harold Larlwood.

In fact, Harold Larlwood got less than nothing.

After 1934, he was ostracised by the Lord's Mandarins, made a scapegoat for damaging Anglo-Australian relations

and left out in the cold. He felt so alienated from the English game that eventually in 1950

he sold his ailing sweet shop in Blackpool and emigrated to Australia with his wife and five daughters. They took the boat

from Tilbury, Larwood using the same brown leather suitcase he had travelled to Australia with in

1932-3. The only person there to wave him off was a youngish John Arlott, a travesty.

In a further concession to Australia, the MCC, governors of the laws of the

game, decreed that only two fielders could now be stationed behind the wicked on the leg's side,

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