The Bloody Ashes

1932-33 season saw one of the most important events in cricketing history, an event that would pressure the Anglo Australian attitude towards the border.

It all started with a conversation in the Piccadilly Hotel in London between England captain Douglas Jardine (Notts), a player who was obsessive in his will to win, captain Arthur Carr (Notts), and two skilled fast bowlers Harold Larwood (Notts ) and Bill Voce (Notts ).

Top of the program that day was the subject of fast leg theory, a very controversial bowling technique involving short bowling quickly lifted the ball on leg stump with a circle at least five fielders are usually placed close to the foot strana.Obrazloženje is that it batsman can usually just play the ball on the leg side often cause deflections of the leg from the upper edge of the bat, ready to be caught in a quadrant of fielders behind square leg.

The reason the meeting was the style in which Australia is on tour in England in 1930, Don Bradman's batting was wild with the English attack, and an average of 140 runs saw Australia win the Test series 2-1

CINE Film Studies and the player is thinking of Bradman's batting and it was noted that it seemed to be uncomfortable addressing delivery that pitched short, bounced high and rose against him in accordance with the leg stump, style of bowling is seen by many to be and intimidation and physical threat.

In an attempt to curb Bradman's batting prowess skilled Jardine decided to use this form bowling attack in the next meeting, which would later become known as the bodyline series.

fast leg theory attack was attempted in the Trent Bridge - and the Kennington Oval last August. Not everyone who saw it admired, but Jardine was decided that the very thing to solve the dilemma Bradman

the following two seasons saw County cricket Larwood and Voce practicing their talents, both in networks and in the field a lot of discomfort and occasional fitness opposing batsman.

England pace bowlers were ready for the moment difficult to Australian fast bowling area.

S 1932/33 series in Australia during the test was not until the third test series in Adelaide that the door is considered ideal for this form of delivery and the successful tactics used by the England team.

Widespread condemnation soon after a number of Australian batsman left crease or injured or that the disappointing results, after a particularly unsavory incident in which Bert Oldfield was rendered unconscious by the head of the strike resulted in a fractured skull, the audience got angry and nearly broke out in rebellion .

Bradman for his part deals with the bowling attack in an unusual way of moving the elbow to the leg side, away from the line of the ball, cutting supplies to the relatively uninhabited hinterland of the mid-field.

Bradman average of 56.57 in the series, an average which, although below par for him is still an enviable učinkovitost.Konačni outcome was a 4-1 England win;. Scorecard shows Larwood's bowling average of 19.51 per wicket after he took 33 wickets

At the end of the series of relations between the teams are at an all-time niska.Australski Board of Control were soon contacted MCC proclaim their outrage and suggesting a relationship between the two countries are at risk as a result of this form of gamesmanship.

MCC passed a resolution in 1935 that "any form of bowling which is obviously a direct attack bowler to the batsman would be a crime against the spirit of the game .'

This is a quarter of a century later that the measures taken in limiting the number of players can be placed behind square leg for two, to effectively put an end to the potential revival of bodyline tactics.

As time passed, relations between the two countries restored and now championship is much looked forward to and enjoyed throughout the world. On his retirement from cricket Harold Larwood emigrated to Australia where he lived in Sydney until his death at the age of 90 years.

Cricket memorabilia from the controversial bodyline series is highly sought after and signed scorecards, handwritten letters, advertising material and photographs are always in demand.