 The Australian cricket team toured England in 1930 . Australia won the five @-@ Test series 2 – 1 , with Don Bradman scoring 974 runs at a batting average of 139 @.@ 14 , an aggregate record that still stands . By the time of the next Ashes series of 1932 – 33 , Bradman 's average hovered around 100 , approximately twice that of all other world @-@ class batsmen . England feared that without resorting to drastic tactics , they might not be able to defeat Australia until Bradman — then aged 24 — retired , something that might be over a decade away . It was believed that something new was required to combat Bradman , but it was believed more likely that Bradman could be dismissed by leg @-@ spin as Walter Robins and Ian Peebles had supposedly caused him problems ; two leg @-@ spinners were included in the English touring party of 1932 – 33 . This view gradually came to change leading up to 1932 . 
 The Australian cricket team toured England in 1930 . Australia won the five @-@ Test series 2 – 1 , with Don Bradman scoring 974 runs at a batting average of 139 @.@ 14 , an aggregate record <a href='null_relcl' title='1'><mark>that</mark></a>still <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>stands</mark></a> . By the time of the next Ashes series of 1932 – 33 , Bradman <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>average hovered around 100 , approximately twice that of all other world @-@ class batsmen . England feared that without resorting to drastic tactics , they might <a href='negative_concord' title='4'><mark>not</mark></a><a href='negative_concord' title='5'><mark>be</mark></a> able to defeat Australia until Bradman — then aged 24 — retired , something <a href='null_relcl' title='6'><mark>that</mark></a>might be over a decade away . It was believed that something new was required to combat Bradman , but it was believed more likely that Bradman could be dismissed by leg @-@ spin as Walter Robins and Ian Peebles <a href='been_done' title='7'><mark>had</mark></a> supposedly caused him problems ; two leg @-@ spinners <a href='uninflect' title='8'><mark>were</mark></a> included in the English touring party of 1932 – 33 . This view gradually came to change leading up to 1932 . 
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