Recently, I came across a question: has a team ever won a test series 3-2 after training 2-0? Here is the answer:
During the 1936–37 season, the England cricket team traveled to Australia to play a five-match Test series for the Ashes against Australia. The Marylebone Cricket Club organized the tour, and MCC played matches outside the Test series. There has only ever been one test comeback of this kind. In 1936–37, Australia was trailing 2-0, while England won opulently after two Test matches. In Brisbane, they triumphed by 322 runs, and in Sydney, by an inning and 22 runs.
However, they won the next three tests to win the series 3-2. The key man behind this marvelous comeback will not come as a huge surprise to cricket lovers. Sir Don Bradman scored 270 (off 375 balls, 458 minutes, including 22 fours) in the third Test match in Melbourne, 212 (off 395 balls, 437 minutes, including 14 fours) in the fourth Test match in Adelaide, and 169 (off 191 balls, 223 minutes, 15 fours) in the fifth and final Test match back at the MCG during his debut series as Australia’s captain. Don Bradman scored plethora of runs, aggregating 810 runs in 9 innings at an average of 90.00
Sir Don Bradman is acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time; averaging 99.94 is a remarkable achievement in any major sport. Bradman continued to captain Australia for another 21 Test matches, but he lost one of them. Bradman is the only captain and the only team in Australia’s 1936–37 squad to win a five-match series following a loss in the opening two Tests.
