Frank Tyson 7 for 27 — The Typhoon Blows Through Melbourne, 1955

Tyson had been chosen for the tour ahead of more experienced bowlers partly on Hutton's recommendation. His county figures were unspectacular but his pace was reportedly extreme. The first Test failure forced England to drop Bedser and rebuild around Tyson and Statham — a decision that came to define the series.

After Brisbane, England had won the Sydney Test by 38 runs with Tyson taking 6 for 85 in the second innings. The Melbourne Test was finely poised after three days. Australia needed only 240 to win when they began their second innings.

Hutton's England side had arrived in Australia after the controversial omission of Trueman. The first Test at Brisbane had been a disaster — Hutton put Australia in and watched them score 601 for 8. By Melbourne, England had regrouped behind Tyson and Brian Statham. Tyson, a 24-year-old Northamptonshire bowler with a Master's degree in English Literature from Durham, had been criticised for an unwieldy run-up. Coach Alf Gover and captain Hutton persuaded him to shorten his approach. The result was sustained pace at 95 mph plus.

At Melbourne, Australia made 231 and England 191 — Maurice Cowdrey 102, the only century of the match. Australia, batting again, were bowled out for 111 on the final morning. Tyson, downwind from the Members' End, was unplayable. He bowled 6.3 eight-ball overs for 16 runs and six wickets. With Statham at the other end taking 2 for 38, Australia collapsed in 70 minutes after a brief rain delay. England chased down the 240 target inside the day to win by 128 runs and take a 2-1 series lead.

Tyson had earlier been hit on the head by a Lindwall bouncer at Sydney, an incident which — Trueman and others believed — turned a placid bowler into an angry one. By Melbourne his pace was such that the great Australian batter Neil Harvey said the ball seemed to disappear before he could pick it up. Hutton stood at slip and described it as 'frightening from the safety of the cordon'.

“I have never seen a faster spell of bowling than that one from Tyson at Melbourne.”

“He frightened me, and I was at first slip.”

England won the fourth Test at Adelaide by 5 wickets, retaining the Ashes for the first time on Australian soil since 1932-33 Bodyline. Tyson finished with 28 wickets at 20.82, the highest haul by an England fast bowler in an Ashes series in Australia. Statham took 18 at 27.72.

Tyson's career was tragically short — by 1959 the pace had gone, eroded by injury and the eight-ball overs. He played only 17 Tests, took 76 wickets at 18.56 and emigrated to Australia in 1960 to coach. He died in 2015.