In the corner of a graveyard just inside the South Downs National Park lies Arthur Gilligan, one of the most controversial, mysterious, and, perhaps, misunderstood England captains.

It’s an overcast October day in Stopham, West Sussex, six months after The i Paper first started investigating the Ashes tour Gilligan led the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) on in 1924-25.

The grounds of St Mary the Virgin church are hauntingly quiet. Yet the ghosts of Gilligan’s past have reverberated across the 100 years since that trip to Australia.

This all centres on suspicions that during an Ashes series that England, then playing under the auspices of MCC, lost 4-1, Gilligan and tour manager Frederick Toone acted as recruiting agents for the British Fascists (BF).

It is thought a tip-off from the Sp

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