Richard Edwards looks beyond a career defining delivery and discovers the planning that had gone into its success

Oval and out: Don Bradman is bowled by Eric Hollies, far right

Hollies pitches the ball up slowly and……he’s bowled….Bradman bowled Hollies nought.”
It wasn’t John Arlott’s most colourful piece of commentary but even now, some 70 years later, it’s one that’s rolled out countless times over the course of an Ashes series.
The thought of anyone emulating The Don in the intervening years has been largely un...