Golden Age Trivia Quiz

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The 1948 team is regarded as one of the greatest teams to have represented Australia, with some going so far as to say that this combination was greater than the 1902 touring side, the mighty West Indies' line-ups of the 1980s and various Australian combinations of the 1990s and the 2000s. However, the squad was not without its critics. The loudest of these was former Australian cricketer and journalist Jack Fingleton, a teammate of Bradman's during the 1930s, who wrote "the 1948 Australian side to England, side that some critics, ignoring the apparent lack of strength in English cricket that season, dubbed the "best Australian team ever" - which was just moonshine. Yorkshire almost beat the Australians of 1948". Fingleton's opinion, however, appears to be in the minority.

Here are some statistics that will put into context the breadth of this squad's achievement. The tour lasted almost eight months, 144 days to be exact. In that time the team was scheduled to play for 112 days. Essentially, they were playing a little more than five days per week. They played a total of 34 games, winning 25 and drawing 9. They won the Test series 4-0. The batting line-up was the envy of any era. Led by Sir Donald Bradman and ably supported by the likes of Lindsay Hassett, Arthur Morris, Sid Barnes and Neil Harvey. Their bowling line up was led by an extremely hostile set of fast bowlers in Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall and Bill Johnston.

All of the incorrect answers were members of Australia's 1961 Ashes tour of England.