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Cover; Title Page; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1: WARRIORS IN WHITE; 2: 'A BLOODY FINE WAY TO START'; 3: BUILDING INVINCIBILITY; 4: TO ENGLAND; 5: MIND GAMES IN AUSTERITY ENGLAND; 6: NOTTINGHAM: THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM; 7: LORD'S: HUTTON DEMORALISED, MILLER OSTRACISED; 8: MANCHESTER: THE COUNTER-REACTION; 9: LEEDS: THE GREATEST TEST; 10: THE OVAL: 99.94; 11: THE IRRESISTIBLE PULL; 12: THE LEGACY; TOUR STATISTICS; FIRST-CLASS MATCHES; AUSTRALIA AND ENGLAND TEST MATCH AVERAGES; AUSTRALIAN SECOND-CLASS AVERAGES (V SCOTLAND); NOTES ON SOURCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A, B, C; INDEX; D, E, F.;Hailed as one of the greatest cricket teams of all time, the 1948?Invincibles' are the only Australians to complete an Ashes tour undefeated. Their crushing victories under Sir Donald Bradman's captaincy created history, even if the Don himself, on his final tour, was left stranded for ever with a Test batting average of 99.94 after his duck in the fifth Test. Yet the mixed feelings about the manner in which these feats were achieved are often forgotten. In his fascinating account of the legendary tour, Malcolm Knox exposes the rift between those players with experience of the horrors of.
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