![]() He inched towards it and finally got there, cutting Chuck Fleetwood-Smith for the runs required. In view was the record highest Test score of 334, held by Bradman and scored at Headingley in 1930 with a youthful Hutton watching. His exit prompted a mini-collapse of three wickets for nine runs as Eddie Paynter (0) and Denis Compton (1) soon followed but Joe Hardstaff proved able company, Hutton reaching his triple-century just before the close at 634-5. The pair took their alliance to a record 382 before Leyland was run out for 187, Hammond then making 42. As the match began on a Saturday, it was followed by a rest day in which Hutton – on 160no, having survived a straightforward stumping chance at 40 – attended church in the morning and then went to the seaside. Left-hander Leyland was the least favourite opponent of leg-spinner Bill O’Reilly, who led what was effectively a three-man attack and had been promoted to number three for that reason. The slender 22-year-old lost opening partner Bill Edrich for 12 but was joined by his sturdy Yorkshire colleague Maurice Leyland in an alliance which took the hosts to 347-1 by the end of the opening day. Now he was back and under orders from Hammond to bat as long as he could in a match which would be played to a finish, however long it took. ![]() ![]() Len Hutton had scored a century in the opening match of the series, failed twice at Lord’s and missed the match at Leeds through injury. England believed they deserved something from the series, though, and Wally Hammond’s luck with the toss held on a pitch prepared by ‘Bosser’ Martin along the usual lines – he squeezed the life out of them by using the four-ton roller known as “Bosser’s Pet”, having bound them using liquid manure which could be smelt from the Tube station. ![]() His first Ashes tour as captain, in 1938, saw draws in the opening two matches, the third at Old Trafford being abandoned without a ball bowled before Australia won by five wickets at Headingley to retain the urn. Once normality was restored, Bradman proved unstoppable. ![]()
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