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That's not quite right: the last pair did bat for 100 minutes but they weren't both tail-enders. One of them was Slasher Mackay, a bloke with a first-class average of 43 (probably worth about 55 these days) and, as his nickname suggests, he was a blocker par excellence. I'm also not sure that...

1 The bodyline tour - would love to see how fast Larwood really was 2 The last test in 1902 - Jessop's century and Hirst/Rhodes' last wicket partnership 3 Hungary's demolition of England in 1953 - to experience the shock of the defeat as much as anything else