The Spin | 'Hard fighter, charming loser': Johnny Douglas, England's remarkable sporting polymath

After a pair on debut, Douglas led Essex and England at cricket as well as winning Olympic boxing gold before his death at seaA century ago England were in Australia, approaching the end of the third Test and on their way to the first 5-0 series whitewashing of their history. It was a grim time for the team, weakened as they inevitably had been by the ravages of the first world war, and they would not win a Test between their last pre-war visit to South Africa in 1914 and their first post-war tr