They visited Downside Abbey in Somerset for the three days immediately preceding the first Test in 1930 – all the Australian players, that is, except for a 21-year-old on his first tour, Donald Bradman, who declined to go.Ī story survives in the West Country that Bradman refused to go with the rest of the Australians because Downside is Catholic and he was Church of England. While McCullum likes preparations which involve spirit, these Australians opted for the spiritual. England’s head coach Brendon McCullum continues to devise novel methods of preparation for his squad ahead of a Test series, but none so strange as the Australians’ build-up for the 1930 Ashes.
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