Bodyline Autopsy

Author:

By David Frith

Awards:

William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award Short Listed 2003

Format:

Paperback (Hardback)

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Price:

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Tagged with:

Cricket, The Ashes, Bodyline, England, Australia

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Further Details

• Published: 25th Sep 2003
• ISBN: 1854109316
• Pages: 480
• Size: 198mm x 129mm

From Word of Sport:

A quite wonderful exploration of the infamous 'bodyline tour'. Richly descriptive, highly analytical and replete with anecdote. You can finally put away your video of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's version of the Bodyline tour and read the full detail in all its glory.

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.