Ashes 2015: What the series means to some of the leading figures of the Ashes, including Alan Davidson and Bob Willis

Alan Davidson, Australian all-rounder between 1953 and 1963, now aged 86

I remember as a young boy my grandfather showing me a picture of the (Australian) team going on the ship to England in 1938. I said ‘One day Grandad, I’m going to do that’. I was nine years’ old and that was my dream. The Ashes is the pinnacle of all cricket.