Bowes, 34, six foot four, bowled fast-medium for Yorkshire and had won his Test cap on the 1932-33 tour after 100 wickets a season for three years. The Melbourne Test on 30 December 1932 was the second of the series; Australia were 0-1 down. Bradman, who had missed the first Test through illness, walked out in the second innings to a packed MCG crowd estimated at 70,000. Cheers ran for nearly half a minute as he made his way to the crease.
Bowes' first ball was a short, ordinary long hop on leg stump; Bradman, eager to start, attempted a hook from inside the line, top-edged into his stumps, and was bowled for 0. The crowd's silence was, by every contemporary account, the most striking sound at a Test match anyone present had heard.
Bowes never had to bowl as well again in his Test career. He took 14 wickets in his 15 Test matches at 22.33; the Bradman dismissal is the one cited. He fought in WW2, was captured at Tobruk and held in Italian and German camps for almost four years; he weighed under nine stone on release in 1945. He returned to county cricket briefly, retired, and became cricket correspondent for the Yorkshire Evening Post until 1985.