Bill Edrich was one of the pillars of English batting during the difficult phase immediately after the Second World War. He formed a supreme batting partnership with Denis Compton, once scored a thousand before May, and scored 3,000 runs in a season.
That Test at Durban, 1938-39. They had to call the Test off only because — their boat left.
65 years ago, Denis Compton and Bill Edrich reached the apex of their dream summer, in a lavish spread of run making that saw 633 scored in a day. Arunabha Sengupta relives the rollicking run feast at Leicester the like of which has seldom been witnessed ever since.