Bodyline Autopsy

Author:

By David Frith

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Hardback (Paperback)

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£20.00

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Cricket, History, The Ashes, Bodyline, Australia, England

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Further Details

• Published: 25th Nov 2002
• ISBN: 1854108964
• Pages: 449
• Photos: 16
• Size: 234mm x 153mm

From Word of Sport:

The most comprehensive work yet written on Bodyline. It is richly descriptive, highly analytical, replete with anecdote, and far-reaching in placing the red-hot 1932/33 Test series into historical perspective. On the 70th anniversary of Bodyline, the controversy is finally viewed in its totality.

From the Publisher:

Fast bowling and controversy have been inseparable since cricket began, but there has never been a more clamorous uproar than that which occurred during the 1932-33 Test series between Australia and England.

England, led by the haughty and slightly mystical Douglas Jardine, had the fastest and most accurate bowler in the world: Harold Larwood. Australia boasted the most prolific scorer of runs the game had ever seen: young Don Bradman, who had punished England's bowlers mercilessly during the 1930 tour. He had to be stopped. Jardine had the weapon and the strategy.

The leg-side bouncer onslaught inflicted on Bradman and other Australian batsmen in 1932-33 by Larwood and Bill Voce, with a ring of fieldsmen waiting for catches, caused outrage at the highest level of government. Bodyline, as this infamous technique came to be known, was repugnant to the majority of cricket-lovers, and ultimately outlawed.

In this work, David Frith has provided a history replete with anecdote on a sporting scandal that, 70 years on, continues to inspire controversy.