5th Test: England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 20-24, 1938 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo Sat, 20 Aug - day 1 - England 1st innings 347/1 (L Hutton 160*, M Leyland 156*) Sun, 21 Aug - rest day Mon, 22 Aug - day 2 - England 1st innings 634/5 (L Hutton 300*, J Hardstaff jnr 40*) Tue, 23 Aug - day 3 - Australia 1st innings 117/3 (WA Brown 29*, SG Barnes 25*) Wed, 24 Aug - day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 123 (34.1 ov) - end of match Ashes 1938: Len Hutton 364; England 903 for 7 at The Oval - Cricket Country › Series › The Ashes 1938 (Australia in England) › Articles Ashes 1938: Len Hutton 364; England 903

 for 7 at The Oval Len Hutton's was a marathon batting performance that eventually culminated in one of the most one-sided Tests ever.

By Abhishek Mukherjee | Updated : August 9, 2016 8:35 PM IST Groundsman ‘Bosser’ Martin with his roller, standing in front of a scoreboard displaying England’s final score in the fifth Test of the 1938 Ashes at The Oval © Getty Images A gazillion records tumbled as England’s three-day batting marathon ended on August 23, 1938. Abhishek Mukherjee looks back at a marathon batting performance that eventually culminated in one of the most one-sided Tests ever. There is a general notion that Test matches that do not favour the batsmen are ‘bad’. Few pitches, however, have produced cricket as dull as the pitch at The Oval did in the 1938 Test. It was not about the batsmen scoring runs; nor was it the fact that they did not get out: it was more about the fact that they did not even seem to be getting out. It must be remembered that the Australians had, in their line-up, an all-time great in the form of Bill O’Reilly, and a more than competent ‘Chuck’ Fleetwood-Smith to back him up.

They were a good fielding side to boot. Despite the fact that they had lacked a quality seamer, it was ridiculous that England would be able to take their score past 900 and would lose only seven wickets in eight sessions of batting. Whatever it wasn’t, was attractive cricket. And it certainly was not a good wicket. It was, however, a statistician’s delight, and more importantly, an Englishman’s delight as Australia were finally given the most emphatic drubbing in the history of the sport. The build-up Australia had retained the 1936-37 Ashes almost miraculously — they still remain the only side to have won a series after being down 0-2. When Don Bradman brought his team to England in 1938 there was obviously talks of ‘revenge’, after that heart-breaking 2-3 defeat. England began emphatically on a flat track Trent Bridge, with Eddie Paynter scoring 216 not out — a new Ashes record by an Englishman at home — and three others going past the hundred-mark.

After England declared at 658 for 8, Stan McCabe played an outrageous innings of 232 in 277 balls that could not help Australia avoid the follow-on. Bradman then scored his customary hundred (his fourth in 4 Tests — equalling his own world record), the Test was saved, and all was well with the world. Come Lord’s, and Hammond lit up the hallowed turf with 240 of the most elegant runs one would ever see going past Paynter’s record in the previous Test. In response Bill Brown carried his bat with a 206 (Bradman scored his fifth hundred in five Tests, creating a new world record), and at stumps on Day Five, Australia had reached 204 for 6 chasing 315. The third Test at Old Trafford was washed off without a ball being bowled, though it has successfully etched its name in history by being the only Test whose events have coincided exactly with an Alfred Hitchcock movie . Australia now needed to win one of the two remaining Test to retain the Ashes, which was difficult to achieve given the fact that no team had been bowled out for below 400 in the series till then.

Enter O’Reilly. The champion picked up 5 for 66 and 5 for 56 to rout England with excellent support from Fleetwood-Smith, who finished with 3 for 73 and 5 for 56. Of course, all that was supported by Bradman’s sixth hundred in six Tests . The tourists eventually survived a Doug Wright scare and ended up winning by five wickets. With the Ashes already conceded, England made three changes to their side, bringing back a 22-year-old youth from Pudsey called Len Hutton with five Tests under his belt; the experienced Les Ames; and the reliable Maurice Leyland. Out went Charlie Barnett, Fred Price, and an injured Doug Wright. At the last moment, however, Ames picked up an injury as well, making way for the Yorkshireman Arthur Wood, who made his Test debut five days before he turned 40. He was the fifth Yorkshire player of the side, and between them they went on to score 612 runs and pick up 10 wickets.

Wood was obviously excited at this unexpected reward that had come so late in his career: under the impression that it could well be his last Test, he took a taxi straight from Leeds to The Oval. “Not bad for a professional cricketer then earning some £200 or 300 a year,” Compton later exclaimed. Australia had no option but to leave out their spearhead Ernie McCormick who had been diagnosed with neuritis in the shoulder. Bradman filled his side with seven batsmen along with a wicket-keeper, which meant that they went in with only three specialist bowlers in the form of O’Reilly, Fleetwood-Smith, and the medium pacer Mervyn Waite, who gone wicketless in his debut at Headingley. To pack their side with more batsmen Bradman also brought in a debutant — a 22-year old from Sydney called Sid Barnes. The pitch was a belter to suit the timeless Test.The wicket seemed absolutely lifeless, and Bradman’s face possibly dropped when he lost the toss for the fourth consecutive time in the series: Hammond had decided to bat.

Day One: Hutton and Leyland scale new heights The pitch was so flat that it was not a surprise that England scored 347 for 1 on Day One. What was surprising that they had actually lost a wicket. Bradman had brought on O’Reilly after a few innocuous overs from Waite and McCabe: ‘Tiger’ responded immediately, trapping Bill Edrich leg-before for a 59-ball 12. England were 29 for one as Leyland walked out. It was a surreal spectacle. The 22-year-old was trying to make a mark in Tests whereas his 38-year-old Yorkshire teammate was making a comeback since the previous Ashes a year and a half back. The two men, almost a generation apart, would use the Ashes as a platform to set up one of the biggest partnerships of all time. Don Bradman (left) watches as Wally Hammond tosses the coin ahead of play on Day One © Getty Images Hutton saw it as a chance to make a mark in the international arena; Leyland saw it as an opportunity to sign off from cricket in style.

Hutton was an accumulator by nature, an epitome of concentration who was possibly born to bat on for hours. Leyland, despite his natural combative self, was a sound strokeplayer; but on that day the two of them batted in unison with a single-minded mission in mind — to bat Australia out of the Test. They crawled to 89 for 1 at lunch. Leyland took his time to settle in, but Hutton was on another plane. Barnett could not gather a ball when Hutton had stepped out to hit Fleetwood-Smith: he was 40 then.Hutton shut out his mind against strokeplay subsequently and decided to grind in. “Poor Ben missed it and was never allowed to forget the fact,” Denis Compton sympathised later. Despite a 45-minute handicap Leyland caught up with Hutton and they scored their individual fifties almost at the same time: Leyland in 110 balls and 94 minutes, and Hutton in 173 balls and 142 minutes. The torture, however, had just begun. On reaching his fifty Leyland began to open up, playing the booming drives and fierce pulls that so characterised his batting.

By the time Bradman realised he had erred in going into the Test a bowler short it was too late. Fleetwood-Smith’s ineffectiveness meant that O’Reilly had to be bowled and to be preserved. He tried the leg-breaks of the eager Barnes, but it did not change the mindset of the batsmen. They simply batted on. Hutton reached his hundred first in 254 balls and 212 minutes, equalling his highest score. Leyland followed soon, reaching the landmark in 218 balls and 202 minutes. A rare chance came after almost five hours of cricket: with his feet tired after almost a day’s batting Leyland fell short of the crease while attempting a single. Waite, however, disturbed the bails in eagerness before Jack Badcock’s throw came in. Barring the two mishaps they had generally been sharp on the field.

Wisden wrote: “Although both the England batsmen scored numerous singles on the off side Australia gave a superb display in the field, Bradman inspiring the team with his fast running and clean picking-up.” Hutton reached his 150 in 362 balls and 331 minutes; Leyland was there shortly afterwards, after batting for 331 balls and 299 minutes. They still carried on relentlessly, and at stumps Hutton was on 160 and Leyland on 156: they had added 318 in even time; England were 347 for 1. The Australian shoulders had started to drop already. They had already set a new Test record partnership for two batsmen coming from the same state side: Table 1: Highest partnerships for same domestic side members Record 576 Bloomfield Providence had not gone their way. To quote Wisden, “A curiosity of the day’s cricket was that four times a no-ball led either to the wicket being hit or the ball being caught.” Day Two: Hutton carries on after Leyland’s departure Rain delayed the start by 25 minutes after the rest day.

The downpour, however, somehow managed to improve the wicket rather than deteriorate it. The duo started off from where they had taken off the previous evening and almost immediately set up a new world record partnership for any wicket against Australia. Table 2: Highest partnerships against Australia Record 1968-69 258 Cardus had complained during one of the intervals to the veteran batsman: “Even you, Maurice, even you won’t hit the ball and give us some cricket.” The response, as always, was prompt and tongue-in-cheek: “Hey, wait a minute, Mr Cardus, wait a minute — tha’ must remember that ah’m playing for me place in team!” If there was one batsman Bradman did not want to see at 411 for 2 it was probably Hammond. The English captain walked out and went into an uncharacteristic defensive shell almost immediately and saw Hutton reach his double-hundred in 516 balls and 468 minutes. Hutton went past the record set by Hammond at Lord’s: he still holds the record.

After taking 12 runs off a Fleetwood-Smith over Hammond suddenly went into a shell; it took him 117 balls and 111 minutes to reach his fifty; he got uncharacteristically stagnant, not hitting a single boundary in his last two hours before he was trapped leg-before by Fleetwood-Smith for a 153-ball 59. The pair had added 135 in 141 minutes, and Hutton was already past 250, a landmark that had taken him 616 balls and 563 minutes. During their wait for close to two days Paynter had told Compton: “Denis, I bet you a pound you and I don’t make ten between us!” Compton accepted the bet. Paynter eventually walked out, completely exhausted from waiting with his pads on. He misjudged a leg-break from O’Reilly and was trapped leg-before for a duck. Compton recalled what followed: “A minute or two later I had been bowled by, of all people, Mervyn Waite, for 1. I purposely say ‘Mervyn Waite of all people’.

You see, this was the only wicket he took in his Test career and he became so proud of his achievement that to this day every time I have arrived in Australia or he in England, he rings me to arrange to buy me a ‘thank-you’ drink.” Compton fell for one, lost the bet, and England had suddenly lost 3 for 9 in 18 minutes, sliding from an acceptable 546 for 2 to a deplorable 555 for 5. Joe Hardstaff jr, the son of Joe Hardstaff sr and the father of Joe Hardstaff (probably the only three First-Class cricketers in a lineage full of many other Joe Hardstaffs) joined Hutton. Len Hutton goes about his innings, breaking multiple records on the way © Getty Images Hutton soon surpassed his highest First-Class score of 271, and still seemed relentlessly hungry for more runs. He found the perfect partner in Hardstaff. His concentration did not waver for a single moment: “I soon realised that Len could play the type of innings that was foreign to my nature.

I could not have batted that length of time without having a number of rushes of blood, but he just ground on, unwilling to break his concentration even for one ball,” Compton commented later. With his concentration never deserting him Hutton eventually went on to register the highest score by anyone against Australia: Table 5: Highest score against Australia Batsman 364 847 Do note that the number of balls faced by Hanif Mohammad in the above innings is not known. He kept going, thanks to the consistent encouragement from Hammond and his Yorkshire teammates, Bill Bowes and Hedley Verity, during the intervals. “In the end they were keener on Len attempting to beat Don’s record [of the highest Ashes score] than he was,” Compton later recalled. Hutton reached his 300 from 718 balls and 662 minutes just before stumps on Day Two. He went to the pavilion unbeaten on that score with Hardstaff on 40. England were 634 for 5.

Hutton later recollected that he was beginning to feel tired when on 250; Leyland had probably anticipated the excitement and anticipation might give the youngster a sleepless night and had recommended the young teetotaller a port and a Guinness. It did Hutton absolutely no good as he tossed and turned with visions of O’Reilly haunting him through the night. While discussing that night Hutton said: “I could not shut out of my mind the thought of his charging up, ball after ball, as he always did, as though he was going to eat me. My, how that man hated batsmen. What a great competitive bowler. I’ve never played against a better.” Day Three: Records tumble O’Reilly began proceedings (“still breathing fire and brimstone as he galloped in”, Hutton later recalled) next morning, determined to stop Hutton from reaching the landmark. Bradman stood right in front of him at silly mid-off, inching closer with every passing ball, determined to lure Hutton into a false stroke. The body language was aggressive enough to suggest that the visitors were on top. They seemed completely unfazed by the fact that they had been thoroughly outplayed by the hosts for two days.

England soon reached 655, which meant that Hutton had been a part of three century partnerships in a single innings. In doing so he became only the fourth batsman in history to achieve this feat. Table 8: Three hundred-partnerships by the same batsman in an innings Batsman 6 215 Several batsmen have achieved this since Hutton. However, do note that Hutton was the first to do it on English soil, and Hanif Mohammad later went on to have four hundred-partnerships in the innings mentioned above, with Imtiaz Ahmed, Alimuddin, Saeed Ahmed, and Wazir Mohammad. This remains a unique feat. Hutton went on and past the 330-mark. The entire stadium, full of 30,000-odd spectators waited with bated breath as he inched on towards the landmark. Two more runs happened – he was now only two short of Bradman’s 334.The first 75 minutes of the morning had yielded only 32 runs for Hutton.

Hutton late-cut one from Fleetwood-Smith but Hardstaff sent him back and walked up to Hutton after the ball with the words “no, you don’t, it’s not worth taking a risk now.” In Len Hutton Remembered, Donald Trelford recollected the exact words said by Howard Marshall during this phase: “The gasometer sinking lower and lower as here comes Fleetwood-Smith running up to bowl. He bowls, and Hutton get a short one. Hutton forces it past silly mid-off where Bradman’s fielding; yes, it is Bradman crouching at silly mid-off. Now here’s Fleetwood-Smith in again to Hutton. Hutton hits him. Oh, beautiful stroke, that’s the record! Well, that was the most lovely stroke, a late-cut, off Fleetwood Smith’s leg-break, which absolutely flashed to the boundary for four runs to give Hutton the record.” Hutton himself recollected later: “In the end Fleetwood-Smith bowled me a long-hop outside the off stump. Gratefully, I chopped it through the slips and I had done it.

Many years later in Australia when Fleetwood-Smith was down on his luck, he came up to me and asked if I could help him a bit financially. I remembered the long-hop in 1938 — and I reckoned that had been worth a fiver of anybody’s money.” Len Hutton is congratulated by Bill Brown on breaking Don Bradman’s record of highest individual Ashes score of 334 runs © Getty Images Bradman himself was the first to congratulate Hutton (“slapped on the back”, wrote Arthur Mailey in The Argus) and the entire Australian team followed suit, as did Hardstaff. Hutton had set a new Ashes record: Table 9: Highest Ashes scores Batsman 2003-04 400* Hutton carried on, unfazed: he became the first player to reach 350 in a Test, the landmark coming up in 812 balls and 712 minutes. Soon afterwards he became the first player in history to be a part of a 300- and a 200-run partnership in the same innings.

The feat has subsequently been emulated by Michael Clarke, who added 288 with Ricky Ponting for the fourth wicket and an unbroken 334 with Michael Hussey for the fifth wicket against India at SCG in 2011-12, and Hashim Amla, 259 with Graeme Smith for the second wicket and an unbroken 377 with Jacques Kallis for the third wicket against England at The Oval in 2012. Hardstaff, on the other hand, went on hitting the ball prolifically, accelerating after Hutton’s record. Hutton eventually holed out to Hassett off O’Reilly, and was cheered on his way back. The magnum opus had lasted 847 balls and 797 minutes, and he his scoring shots included 143 singles, 18 twos, 15 threes, and 35 boundaries.

The following table shows a breakdown of Hutton’s innings in segments of fifty: Table 11: Hutton’s innings broken down Fifty 337 309 It was Wood’s turn now – the man who had possibly been ruing what was arguably the most useless taxi-ride in the history of Test cricket. He had to wait the mere matter of 14 hours after he had got off the taxi. As he walked out of the dressing-room Hammond told him that he needed to bat on, since many more runs needed to be scored before the declaration would come. With the scoreboard reading 770 for 6 Wood walked out with the words “aye, I’m just [the] man for crisis.” The scorecard when Len Hutton was dismissed on 364 © Getty Images The next record was broken when England went past their own score of 849: Table 14: Highest team scores Team 1997 952 for 6 Hardstaff, having reached his 50 in 113 balls and 92 minutes, now went past the hundred-mark in 236 balls and 192 minutes.

Shortly afterwards he bettered his previous Test best of 114. Wood also joined in the fun and reached 50 on debut in 78 balls and 74 minutes. He added 106 with Hardstaff; in the process England’s became the first one to include four century partnerships. This feat has been achieved seven more times. Hardstaff reached his 150 in 367 balls and 298 minutes. This became the first occasion when three batsmen went past 150 in the same innings. The only other time it has been achieved was in Kanpur 1986-87 when Sunil Gavaskar, Mohammad Azharuddin, and KapilDev scored 176, 199, and 163 respectively. The pair added 106 before Wood hit one back to Barnes off a full-toss to become his first Test wicket and eventually Hammond declared at tea with Hardstaff unbeaten on 169 and Verity on eight. England had scored 903 for 7 in 335.2 overs and the groundsman complained later about them not making an effort for the thousand-mark.

Then, with the score on 887, a major incident occurred: Bradman himself came on to bowl. The Advertiser (Adelaide) wrote: “Bradman collapsed at the popping-crease and was carried from the field by Waite and Fleetwood-Smith, Ward taking his place and McCabe assuming the captaincy. The accident occurred from the second ball of Bradman’s second bowling spell.” Hammond could possibly have batted longer but he declared the moment he got to know that Bradman’s injury was serious enough. He did not delay the decision further (what if Bradman had got enough time to be cured?). With Jack Fingleton also pulling out because of a muscle-strain the Australians were reduced to nine batsmen, making the decision a no-brainer. O’Reilly ended up with figures of 85-26-178-3 while Fleetwood-Smith had 87-11-298-1.Patsy Hendren was in awe of Fleetwood-Smith’s tenacity:”My admiration for Fleetwood has increased tremendously.

His final analysis will look dreadful in cold print, but figures will tell an awful lie concerning his bowling merit.” As things turned out, Fleetwood-Smith set two unenviable records: Table 15: Most balls bowled by a bowler in an innings Batsman 1938 2011 Hutton, in an interview to The West Australian (Perth), said: “Eight years ago when I was aged 14 I watched Bradman’s 334 at Leeds and little realised that I would have a chance of beating it.” Accolades poured in. Mailey called it “one of the best played for England.” He added: “The only regret is that it was not made in a match which had a bearing on the destination of The Ashes.” Charlie Macartney, in an interview to The Courier-Mail (Brisbane), said: “Hutton achieved a wonderful performance. It was an amazing feat of physical endurance and patience.

His innings contained remarkably few mistakes… it was a mixture of neat and crude cuts… the only time he left the crease to make a stroke he should have been stumped.” Bradman wrote: “Throughout the long innings his defence remained utterly impregnable, whilst his shots were correctly made and every ball played in its merit.” Of Leyland’s run out Bradman wrote that he “seemed unlikely to get out any other way.” Pudsey, Hutton’s city, went wild in excitement. The Argus wrote: “Bells were ringing and drinks were ‘on the house’ at all hotels. Complete strangers shook hands in the streets. Hutton’s mother wept for joy. His father was working on a building estate some distance from his home but relays of friends kept him posted with the latest score. The postmaster was swamped with congratulatory telegrams.” Alderman Myers, the Mayor of Pudsey, blurted out in excitement: “By goom, it’s costing me summat in telegrams!” Mr Myers had apparently sent Hutton a telegram after every fifty scored by the batsman! The fan mail had already started to arrive by the third day.

The Argus wrote: “It is rumoured that some letters contain marriage proposals, but Hutton refuses to deny or confirm.” Trying for press on the situation, Mailey cornered Hutton after he was dismissed, with George Duckworth listening in. Mailey: Are you married? Mailey: Engaged? Hutton (blushing): No, Arthur, I am not interested in anybody. I’m only a baby. At that moment a huge cheer went on inside the ground. A confused Hutton turned towards Duckworth. Hutton: What happened? Somebody beaten my record? Duckworth: No. Don’s bowling now. The entrepreneur A Whitelaw announced a reward worth £1,000 for Hutton. Eight years back he had gifted the same amount to Bradman when he had scored 334 at Headingley. Australia, now down to nine men, were up against the daunting task of scoring 704 to save the follow-on as they went out to bat at 5 pm. Given that the Test was a timeless one there was no question of playing out time and saving it: they were up against defeat even before they had come out to bat, and they were aware of it.

The team was psychologically quite down when they came out to bat; Bowes struck in the second over, having Jack Badcock (whose name caused general hilarity among contemporary fans) caught by Hardstaff at silly mid-on. Bowling with serious pace at the other end Ken Farnes had McCabe caught by Edrich at short square-leg for 14. Australia were 19 for 2 after 18 minutes of batting. Hassett walked out. The diminutive Victorian put up a brilliant display of batsmanship, driving Farnes for two boundaries on the leg-side. Australia, decided to go down fighting, brought up their fifty in 40 minutes. It was too good to last, however, and when Edrich bounced one he hooked straight to Compton at long-leg. Hassett’s 42 had taken him 41 balls and the pair had added 51 in 33 minutes. Barnes walked out for his first Test innings and played some beautiful strokes. Australia were 117 for 3 at stumps – a mere 786 runs behind – with Barnes on 25 and Brown still around with 29.

Day Four: Australia capitulate Brown and Barnes began the next day tentatively, but one spell from Bowes dismissed whatever hope there was in the heart of the Australian supporters: he ran through Barnes’s defence (the youngster had scored a 72-ball 41 and had helped Brown add 75 in 68 minutes); Barnett edged one to Woods; Waite was clean bowled; and O’Reilly was caught behind, giving Bowes his fifth wicket. From 145 for 3 Australia had slumped to 160 for 7. The stark contrast between scorelines of the two sides was unbelievable. Other than Brown, no Australian batsman had displayed the concentration and application of the Englishmen and surrendered meekly to the English attack. Fleetwood-Smith, effectively the last batsman in Bradman and Fingleton’s absence, scored a 20-ball 16 (going past his previous best of 13) with three fours and helped Brown take Australia past 200. “Neither pace nor spin bowling could disturb the equanimity of Brown,” wrote Wisden.

In an effort to bring Fleetwood-Smith on strike Hutton kicked the ball to the boundary when Brown had cut it to the Yorkshireman. Since the effort was intentional, however, Brown was awarded five runs and he managed to retain the strike. When nothing seemed to work Hammond tried the left-arm spin of Leyland. Keeping in tone with the success story of the Yorkshire players in the Test, Leyland struck: Brown was caught by Hammond of the second attempt for a 153-ball 69 with 6 fours. He just missed out on carrying his bat through an innings (though Australia were, technically speaking, two men short). The last wicket had added 41 in 26 minutes, and the entire innings had lasted only 52.1 overs and 166 minutes. To put things into perspective, Hutton had taken 142 minutes to reach his first fifty. Bowes finished with 5 for 49. Leading by 702 Hammond could well have batted on, setting the only four-digit target in Test cricket. However, he was probably sceptic about Bradman’s injury: what if he got fit and scored a 600?

He had, after all, scored a hundred in each of his last 6 Tests! Badcock was bowled by Bowes early in the second innings; McCabe was caught behind off Farnes and Bowes trapped Hassett leg-before. Australia’s last hope of going past Hutton possibly faded when Brown holed out to Edrich off Farnes. They were 41 for 4, and required 661 more to make England bat again. Barnes and Barnett hit out merrily, the former scoring 33 before Verity trapped him leg-before. Waite fell next ball. Barnett flashed his bat hard at everything that came his way, and scored a merry 50-ball 46 with seven fours before Farnes came back to bowl him. Farnes rounded off the innings as Leyland had the last touch of the Test, having Fleetwood-Smith caught. Farnes eventually finished with 4 for 63 while Bowes and Verity picked up a pair apiece. The Australian innings of 123 lasted only 34.1 overs.

Australia had lost by an innings and 579 runs, setting a new world record: Table 18: Biggest margin of victory Team 1938 Others to achieve the feat subsequently are Bradman, Greenidge, Inzamam, Hayden and Langer On their way back home Hutton and Compton had to stop at a traffic signal. A car pulled up next to them and a woman asked: “Well done, Len, but why didn’t you score one more — one for every day of the year?” A shell-shocked Hutton later told Compton: “Denis, tell me, can you ever satisfy a woman?” What followed? - Bradman was ruled out for the rest of the tour. Much to his dismay he could not play Amr Bey, the “undisputed champion” of squash, in a bout that would have brought two champions face-to-face.

- The Australians, demoralised by the rout, had a torrid time throughout the rest of the tour: they conceded a 117-run lead to Sussex at Hove and just about managed to save the match.The last match of the tour against HD Leveson-Gower’s XI at Scarborough, however, must have been a déjà vu for the tourists: Hutton scored 73, Leyland 51, and Hardstaff 108; Farnes picked up 3 for 75 in the first innings while Bowes had 5 for 42 in the second. Not to be left behind, Verity picked up 3 for 60 in the match. - The longest Test was played at Kingsmead a year after the incident. The two Tests put the concept of timeless Tests under serious doubt. In a meeting held on October 12, 1945 the Australian Board announced that timeless Tests would be used in last Tests of series only if it was a decider. It wasn’t needed as both the 1946-47 and 1948 Ashes were decided before the last Tests.

The next meeting before the 1950-51 did not even include the question of a timeless Test. - It turned out to be the last Ashes before World War II. Australia retained the Ashes for the next three series but eventually conceded it in 1953. England were led by Hutton. - After scoring 270 at MCG, 26 and 212 at Adelaide, 169 at MCG, 51 and 144 not out at Trent Bridge, 18 and 102 not out at Lord’s, and 103 and 16 at Headingley, Bradman did not bat at The Oval. It was already a world record then, with nobody having scored hundreds in more than three consecutive Tests. He took off after the war where he had left off — with 187 at The Gabba and 234 at SCG. - Australia as good as avenged the defeat in the next Ashes Test at Brisbane, winning the match by an innings and 332 runs — at that time the second-largest margin of victory after England’s at The Oval.

It was undoubtedly the greatest turnaround ever in the history of Test cricket. Brief scores: England 903 for 7 decl. (Len Hutton 364, Maurice Leyland 187, Joe Hardstaff jr 169*, Wally Hammond 59, Arthur Wood 53; Bill O’Reilly 3 for 178) beat Australia 201 (Bill Brown 69, Lindsay Hassett 42, Sid Barnes 41; Bill Bowes 5 for 49) and 123 (Ben Barnett 46; Ken Farnes 4 for 63). BBC SPORT | Cricket | England | Classic Ashes clashes - 1938, The Oval Classic Ashes clashes - 1938, The Oval 1938 - Fifth Test, The Oval 20, 22, 23, 24 August England won by an innings & 579 runs England 903 for 7 dec.

Len Hutton 364 Bill Bowes 5 for 49 Australia 123 all out The last Ashes Test before the Second World War was the stuff of dreams for cricket statisticians - and England. The hosts needed to win to square the series and did so in style with Len Hutton leading the way. He batted for more than 13 hours in compiling a record score of 364 and his second-wicket partnership with Maurice Leyland remains an English record. Australia mounted little resistance to England's 903-7 declared and soon subsided by an innings and 579 runs. While Hutton's individual mark - his country's 100th Ashes ton - and England's total have been superceded with time, the margin of victory remains a Test record. England took advantage of a weak Australian bowling attack, most notably Hutton and Leyland who put on 382 together. Hutton was the model of concentration on a good, quick wicket, but the knock took it out of him and he had trouble sleeping despite having a bottle of Guinness before bed time.

Audio highlights from the Oval Test in 1938 However, after a second sleepless night and his hardest spell at the crease as he worked to play himself in, his twin targets tumbled in successive shots. A boundary took him to 336, eclipsing Don Bradman's Ashes record and drawing him level with Wally Hammond's then world record, which he duly passed. Australia's hopes were hit by injuries to Bradman, who had fractured his right ankle while bowling, and Jack Fingleton, who had a strained leg muscle. And it was only when reports were confirmed that Bradman would not bat on a benign pitch that Hammond chose to declare. Only Bill Brown - who carried his bat to stay on the field for more than 18 hours - and Ben Barnett put up any resistance in the face of some fine bowling. Bill Bowes claimed five first innings scalps and Ken Farnes four in Australia's second knock as the visitors were bowled out twice in four and three-quarter hours. Despite England's efforts, Australia retained the Ashes. Did you know?

Having sat with pads on in the pavilion for the best part of two days, Eddie Paynter bet Denis Compton they would not make 10 runs between them. Paynter was out for a duck and Compton made four, giving the winner the princely sum of £1.

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 , his 2nd wicket in the Australia second innings The day the record went | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo The day the record went Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Reg Hayter has a few words with Sir Len Hutton and Denis Compton Reg Hayter has a few words with Sir Len and Denis Compton.

When Hutton had made 40, Ben Barnett missed an easy stumping from Fleetwood-Smith. A very big miss and the bill followed late Len Hutton is congratulated by the Australians after passing Wally Hammond's record score © The Cricketer On Monday, August 23, 1938, 22-year-old Len Hutton, the Yorkshire opening batsman, signalised the sixth of his 79 Test matches for England by beating Australian Don Bradman's record 334 between the two countries, at Leeds in 1930 He scored 364. As a boy of 14, Hutton had watched Bradman play his mammoth innings. At The Oval , Hutton began batting on Saturday at 11.30 am, passed Bradman's record on Tuesday morning and was at the crease for 13 hours 20 minutes, during eight sessions of play. This was to then the longest innings ever played in first-class cricket. He gave only one chance, and that a stumping, hit 35 fours, 15 threes, eighteen twos and 143 singles.

Maurice Leyland scored 187, Joe Hardstaff 169, Wally Hammond 59, Arthur Wood 53, Denis Compton one-and England reached 903 for seven before Hammond declared. With a gentle prod here and there, the Editor of The Cricketer has encouraged Sir Leonard - he was knighted in 1956 - and Denis, C.B.E., to delve into their memories about this historic occasion of 40 years ago. Denis's recollections begin with his own sparse contribution. "While Len went on and on, seemingly unbeatable, Eddie Paynter, at No. 5, and I, No. 6, sat with pads on for a day and three-quarters. "Suddenly Eddie leaned across to me on the players' balcony and said, `Denis, I bet you a pound you and I don't make ten between us!' Now in those days a pound was worth a bit and, foreseeing some easy money, I promptly accepted. "You know what happened.

While Len watched from the other end, Eddie was out to Bill O'Reilly for nought and a minute or two later I had been bowled by, of all people, Mervyn Waite, for one. I purposely say Mervyn Waite of all people. You see this was the only wicket he took in his Test career and he became so proud of his achievement that to this day every time I have arrived in Australia or he in England, he rings me to arrange to buy me a "thank you" drink." A year or two earlier Len's fellow-Yorkshireman, Herbert Sutcliffe, had forecast that Len would become an even better player than he had been. At that time many people thought that the usually cautious Herbert had been momentarily carried away. After all Herbert had retired with a Test average 60.73 in 84 Test innings. "Len's innings at The Oval," recalled Denis, "convinced me that Herbert had not exaggerated. I was struck by his marvellously relaxed stance and the amount of time he had to play the ball. Apart from his endurance, his concentration and dedication were fantastic, he was just never out of tempo.

I have never seen anyone who looked less likely to get out. "I soon realised that Len could play the type of innings that was foreign to my nature. I could not have batted that length of time without having a number of rushes of blood, but he just ground on, unwilling to break his concentration even for one ball. "When Len was 40, however, he gave his one chance of the innings. This was an easy stumping to Ben Barnett from Fleetwood-Smith's googly. Poor Ben missed it and was never allowed to forget the fact. "Lunch and tea breaks, Len just sat quietly in the corner of the dressing-room. I think he had fruit salad and a cup of tea-nothing else-each time but, as the innings went on, he showed signs of tiring. Yet Wally Hammond, Hedley Verity and Bill Bowes pressed him to keep going. In the end they were keener on Len attempting to beat Don's record than he was. "Moreover, Wally seemed determined that England, so often on the receiving end of Don's mighty bat, should turn the tables this time.

`For instance, when Arthur Wood, the Yorkshire wicketkeeper, went out to bat with the score at 770 for 6, he was told that many more runs were required before the skipper would think of declaration. To the Surrey member who wished him good luck' as he ran down the pavilion steps, Arthur solemnly replied! "Ay, I'm just man for crisis." The scorebaord tells the tale as Hutton finally falls © The Cricketer "At 40 years of age, this was Arthur's first Test for England-Leslie Ames was out through injury-and, thinking it might be his only Test, he celebrated by hiring a taxi to The Ovalfrom Leeds. Not bad for a professional cricketer then earning some £200 or 300 a year. "And, but for injuries to Jack Fingleton and Don Bradman-who retired from the match and took no further part in the tour-I believe Wally would not have declared as early as he did. "Even when it was all over, Len remained his calm, controlled self, I know I would have been over the moon and would have shown my enjoyment to everyone.

But, even when the champagne was flowing, Len accepted the mass of congratulations with a quiet `Thank you very much' and little else. Of course, he was tired out, physically and mentally." Len Hutton's own recollections are of that very tiredness. "Some time during Monday, when I had already batted eight hours or so, I started to relax. I thought I would enjoy myself a bit. I lifted a ball over mid-on's head. Immediately Wally Hammond stood up on the balcony and indicated, in no uncertain way, that he wanted me to keep my head, and my shots down. So I had to go on. "I don't think the idea of trying for Don's record came into my head until I was around 250 By the Monday night, however, the strain was beginning to tell. In fact Maurice Leyland told me I would probably have difficulty in sleeping and he advised me to drink a port and Guinness. "I was then a strict teetotaller-not much of a drinker now-and I did as he suggested. It was no good. I should have had five or six.

With so many people telling me that I needed another 35 runs to break the record, I tossed and turned most of the night, haunted by one face. That of Bill O'Reilly. "I could not shut out of my mind the thought of his charging up, ball after ball, as he always did, as though he was going to eat me. My, how that man hated batsmen. What a great competitive bowler. I've never played against a better. "And, next morning, sure enough Bill asked Don Bradman to field at silly mid-off. With our score at the start of play at 634 for 5, you would have thought the Aussies were skittling us out. Every time I looked up there was Don crouching in front of me, other fielders creeping closer and' closer, and O'Reilly still breathing fire and brimstone as he galloped in. "Anyway, in the end Fleetwood-Smith bowled me a long hop outside the off stump. Gratefully, I chopped it through the slips and I had done it.

Many years later in Australia when Fleetwood-Smith was down on his luck, he came up to me and asked if I could help him a bit financially. I remembered the long hop in 1938-and I reckoned that had been worth a fiver of anybody's money. "On the way from The Oval at the end of the game, I stopped at traffic lights. A woman in an adjoining car pulled down her window and said: 'Well done, Len, but why ever didn't you score one more-one for every day of the year?' "As I said to Denis later: `Denis, tell me, can you ever satisfy a woman?'" © ESPN Sports Media Ltd. Sir Leonard Hutton Biography -Biography Online About Sir Leonard Hutton Biography Sir Leonard Hutton 1916-90. England Test cricketer. One of finest batsmen of the era. Hutton once held record for highest ever test score – 364 made at the Oval against the Australians in 1938. Despite a six year break, where he fought in World War Two, he scored nearly 7,000 test runs at an average of 56.

“With Hutton, figures did not lie. He stood head and shoulders above every other batsman and, taking all factors into consideration, worthily earned the description of the finest present-day batsman in the world.” – Wisden Born in a cricketing family in the village of Fulneck in Pudsey. Len Hutton displayed a remarkable talent for cricket from an early age. By the age of eighteen he had made his debut for Yorkshire. Although his first innings was a duck – this did not prove to be an indication of his immense talent and ability. At the age of 21, he made an epic 364 at the Oval against Australia in 1938. At the time this was the world’s longest first class innings and broke the previous test record set by the great Don Bradman. Sir Leonard Hutton was more than a cricketer. He was a real gentleman with a modest demeanour. He brought the qualities of determination, discipline and restraint to the cricketing crease creating at times an attitude of invincibility. Often the fortunes of England were closely connected to the fortunes of Len Hutton.

After the war he was made captain of England and led England to regain the Ashes in 1953. His cricketing career was all the more remarkable for the long break during the Second world war, where in a war injury he lost 2 inches off his left arm. Despite this injury, it didn’t seem to affect him. Before the war he made over 11,700 runs at an average of 48.98. After 1945 he made another 28,292 runs at an average of 58.81. This included 129 hundreds. If the war had not intervened his record would have been even more special. He was one of the few cricketers to be knighted by the Queen. Test Career June 23 - Sport - Birthdays - On This Day On This Day Birthdays in Sport on June 23 Full Calendar 1884 Cyclone Taylor, ice hockey player (d.

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Question: Which England cricketer scored a massive 364 at the Oval in August 1938?
Answer: Len Hutton