Graham Thorpe and Nasser Hussain steer England home in the dark at Karachi
THRILLERS AND NAIL-BITERS
Yorkshire’s Jack Brown was anticipating Bazball more than a century before its birth. England’s 1894/95 series in Australia was “the first great Ashes series,” according to David Frith. “Even Queen Victoria took an interest in the scores as they came through via the new cable service,” he wrote in WCM. The series was tied 2-2 after four Tests with England, led by the popular Andrew Stoddart, chasing down 297 to win the decider in Melbourne thanks to Brown’s 140, the first fifty of which came in 28 minutes – still an Ashes record. Brown died a decade later, aged 35.