The Legend of Bradman's 1948 Australians.
In March, 1948, the 19th Australian cricket team to tour England sailed from Australia, and into a unique place in history. By the time the tour ended nearly eight months later, the team, captained by the world's greatest batsman, Don Bradman, had earned the name The Invincibles and was hailed as the greatest Australian side ever assembled. The Australians easily retained The Ashes and remained unbeaten in 34 matches, a feat never previously achieved.
Some of their performances were brilliant in the extreme. In one match, against Essex, the Australians scored 721 runs in a single day, a world-record for first-class cricket. Such was their overall supremacy, the players scored a total of 47 centuries on tour. Their English counterparts could manage only 7. In creating the legend, Bradman's 1948 Australians became, and still remain, cricket heroes to a nation.
Fully illustrated with black-and-white photographs, this book, marks the 50th Anniversary of this most famous of all cricket tours. It relives the legend through the eyes of the players, the recollections of those who saw them play and the match reports of the day from the Bible of cricket, the 'Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'.
