“Do you think they’d like me to send them a picture?”

Steve Roper, the eldest grandson of Harold Larwood, is holding court in the kitchen of his home in deepest New South Wales.

Tucked away in the corner of a sun-drenched close in Port Macquarie that bears a striking resemblance to Ramsey Street in Neighbours , he is responding after I tell him I’ve received a message from the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) that they still haven’t got a picture of his grandad in the Lord’s pavilion, 92 years after he completed one of the greatest Ashes tours in history.

Larwood will always be remembered for his heroics in the 1932-33 series in Australia, which England won 4-1. The chief weapon of captain Douglas Jardine’s Bodyline tactic, his 33 wickets at an average of 19.51 don’t even tell half the

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