Bodyline Autopsy: The full story of the most sensational Test cricket series: Australia v England 1932-33In 1932, England’s cricket team, led by the haughty Douglas Jardine, had the fastest bowler in the world: Harold Larwood. Australia boasted the most prolific batsman the game had ever seen: the young Don Bradman. He had to be stopped. The leg-side bouncer onslaught inflicted by Larwood and Bill Voce, with a ring of fieldsmen waiting for catches, caused an outrage that reverberated to the back of the stands and into the highest levels of government. Bodyline, as this infamous technique came to be known, was repugnant to the majority of cricket-lovers. It was also potentially lethal – one bowl fracturing the skull of Australian wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield – and the technique was outlawed in 1934. |
Contents
SOUTHWARD | |
THE MAN IN THE HARLEQUIN | |
ACROSS THE WIDE BROWN LAND | |
THE MAGIC OF McCABE | |
DONS ODD DOUBLE | |
FROM A HOSPITAL | |
THE FINAL SHOOTOUT | |
SACKCLOTH AND ASHES | |
CONSEQUENCES | |
THE CORPSE TWITCHES | |
GATHERING OF THE GHOSTS | |
Endnotes | |
Acknowledgments | |
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Bodyline Autopsy: The Full Story of the Most Sensational Test Cricket Series ... David Frith No preview available - 2002 |
Bodyline Autopsy: The Full Story of the Most Sensational Test Cricket Series ... David Frith No preview available - 2003 |