#bodyline series

2 incidents tagged

The Bodyline Series

Australia vs England

2 December 1932

The 1932-33 Bodyline series: England captain Douglas Jardine directed Harold Larwood to bowl short-pitched leg-theory at batsmen's bodies to stop Don Bradman. Nearly caused a diplomatic rupture between England and Australia; England won 4-1.

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⭐Serious

Pataudi Sr's Hundred on Ashes Debut — Sydney, December 1932

Australia v England

1932-12-02

On 2 December 1932 the Nawab of Pataudi Sr scored 102 on his Ashes debut at Sydney, the first Indian-born cricketer to make a hundred on Ashes debut. He played one more Test of the series and never another for England, his innings now a footnote inside the larger story of Bodyline.

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