England seek their own Bradman in bid for historic Ashes comeback in third Test

England arrived in Australia knowing it would take something special to reclaim the Ashes.

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Now, after losing the first two Tests, they need a miracle -- but it is one that has been achieved before.Donald Bradman’s Australians, in the 1936/37 Ashes, are the only team to have come from 2-0 down to win a five-match series in the entire 148-year history of Test cricket.

England do not have a cricketer to compare with Bradman but they boast two modern giants of the game in captain Ben Stokes and Joe Root.

Stokes has fired sporadically during the current tour, while Root scored his first-ever century in Australia in the second Test in Brisbane.

Realistically, England now need at least one of their players to have the series of their lives if they are to have any chance of a first series win in Australia since 2010/11.

Bradman, who died in Adelaide in 2001 at the age of 92, had a Test batting average of 99.94 - which puts him in a category of his own in the history of the game.

“The Don” uncharacteristically failed to get off the mark in two of his first three innings of the 1936/37 series, in Brisbane and Sydney.