The Ashes " review
Nottingham PlayhouseGuardian cricket correspondent Mike Selvey recalls in a blog his shame at once failing to recognise the great Nottinghamshire and England fast bowler, Harold Larwood in the Trent Bridge pavilion. Yet Selvey was hardly alone. Despite having won the 1932/33 Ashes series in Australia virtually single-handed, Larwood found himself ostracised by the cricketing community and retired to run a sweet shop …