Bodyline Autopsy by David Frith

Bodyline Autopsy by David Frith

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.

David Frith is one of cricket's most distinguished authors. A former editor of The Cricketer, he founded Wisden Cricket Monthly in 1979 and ran it for 17 years. His other books include a pictorial history of Ashes Tests (the first 1,000-picture cricket book); The Trailblazers, a reconstruction of the first ever English tour of Australia; Silence of the Heart, his acclaimed study of cricket suicides; The Fast Men, a study of fast bowlers, and biographies of such disparate cricketers as John Edrich and Jeff Thomson. He lives in Guildford, Surrey.

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ISBN 13	9781854108968
ISBN 10	1854108964
Title	Bodyline Autopsy
Author	David Frith
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2002-11-25
Number of pages	500
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