This is a look at the the furious air battle which took place between the RAF and the Luftwaffe during 1940. One which may well have saved not just Britain itself, but consequently all of Europe from the Nazis.

Melbourne, West Indian batting legend Vivian Richards has heard the cracking sound of cheekbones quite often in his career when he used to unleash his fearsome pace attack on hapless opponents in the 1980s and watch them spite fire. That intimidating sight was a spectacle in cricket.(contd...)