No way would he have been waving his bat to the crowd before he made a run. The Don was way too professional for that bollocks. I remember an interview with Gubby Allan about a year after this and he said it was fiction.
For an example of this tempest try "Bodyline 37" for the effect on lesser batsmen. Larwood the bowler had a measured speed 100mph delivery. Bradman was probably the greatest batsman ever, this tactic was used to stop him.
Sorry, not the same innings at all. This is a TV film of the 1932/33 ashes series in Australia. The one you are refering to is 1948 ashes series in England. Same result though.
What a shame Larwood never played more tests, with a 1st class bowling avg under 18, and obviously the sheer pace he had, he would have taken over 300 wickets if he'd managed 75+ games, no problem at all, plus no easy wickets against poorer sides back then. Legend for me though, and one of our best ever quicks, and no mug with the bat either.
According to the biography of the bowler Bowes "Jardine jumped around like a Red Indian doing a war dance when Bradman was bowled" this was a major surprise for his team as Jardine was considered dour and reserved even by the standards of the 1930's. Here this film just shows him smiling, It makes me wonder at the accuracy of the research for this series.
Absolutely hilarious film this - I'd forgotten how funny it is. All that Jardine requires is a moustache to twirl. Classic Aussie Pom-bashing in the Mel Gibson "Gallipoli"/"Braveheart" mode.
If you watch the original version the English players gave the Don three cheers as he arrived at the crease. A nice gesture that was not in the clip above.
What law prevents bowlers from doing the same in the present day? Law 41.5 states "At the instant of the bowler's delivery there shall not be more than two fielders, other than the wicket-keeper, behind the popping crease on the on side," commonly referred to as being "behind square leg". Additionally, Law 42.6(a) includes: "The bowling of fast short pitched balls is dangerous and unfair if the umpire at the bowler's end considers that by their repetition and taking into account their length, height and direction they are likely to inflict physical injury on the striker".
@ourvic Yes, I agree, it was nonsense. But dramatic recreations of historical events usually are. Larwood was a true gentleman of the game. The fact he later emigrated to Australia says much about him - and indeed about our attitude to 'bodyline'.
@MrDopey16 The key to leg theory is the field, which has been against the rules since bodyline. Short-pitched bowling with a conventional field is part of a fair contest. Leg theory is negative play designed to force a batsman to put self-preservation before the preservation of his wicket. If you don't understand the difference the field (and line) makes, you can't possibly understand why it ruins the contest between bat and ball.
@SJACK13 I would agree that people who make broad assessments of entire countries and the people who inhabit them are prone to making fools of themselves.
I got my original 3 disk version from e-bay, but a word of caution, it's only available in PAL Region 4. So you either have to have a multi-region player, or decrypt it, copy and recode it using your computer. As for putting it all on RUclips, it's approx 330min long, so it's not worth the time and effort.
Both Bodyline and the underarm incident were legal. Underarm bowling was illegal at the time, but this rule was left out for that competition only. Bodyline or leg theory had been used for quite some time. Jardin took it to its limit. LBW rules were a lot more strict. Only a straight ball would get LBW, any swing and the batsman would get the benefit of doubt. Umpires could have stopped it under the existing laws for intimidatory bowling. Both legal, but not in the spirit of the game.
@cavalier080854 A nice-sounding theory, only Hammond didn't bowl spin - he bowled brisk medium-pace. But you're right, Hammond was the 'English Don', he just average 40+ runs less.
@mikeylord1875 it was a new tactic, that has arguably become part of the test game, in short ball tactics, the rules have changed to prevent it happening to that extent again, very much like the no ball rule. The only difference was we bounced it on the pitch, and you didn't. At least they had a chance to hit it, unlike the New Zealand chap.
Agreed, but their was a battle between Wally Hammond and the Don, in this series. Hammond was freqently used as Englands only spin attack. Hammond is probably Englands equivalent of the Don, only he could bowl very well, as well as bat.
The truth is, despite the video hyping it up - it was a non bodyline ball, and a non bodyline field. He simply edged the ball onto his stumps and was bowled.
This is the Australian mini series "Bodyline" and is about the most controversial test cricket series ever played in 1932/33. Australia accused England of being unsportsmanlike in the tactics used, the resulting accusations nearly resulted in Australia leaving the British Empire. Bodyline was made illegal as a result.
@uibyong Not agreeable sir. Neither can he be rated as the best batsman nor the greatest cricketer. There can be endless debates on the greatest batsman but Sir Gary is undoubtedly the greatest cricketer.
Lazyplaye is woefully inaccurate. Yes in 1948 16 years after the Bodyline series the English players clapped Bradman's last innings. In 1932 the stiff upper lip types wanted to defeat him at all cost.
Jardine did not move the field across to the Leg side in real life for this delivery, Bowes was bowling to traditional off side field. This needs remaking with greater accuracy and better actors. (Hugo Weaving the honourable exception)
As an aussie cricket fanitic get it right...this movie was dribble....I was so embarrased I wrote to Harold Larwood in Sydney to apolgise and recieved a hand written letter back of thanks..He was a professional and cricket was a better prospect than the coal mines. Told what to achieve he hold no options, later the MCC under Plum Warner let him down unmercifully...
This miniseries was as historically accurate as "Battle For The Planet of the Apes". There was no chanting Bradman's name, Jardine never wore the blue England cap (he wore the Harlequins cap) and neither Gary Sweet or Hugo Weaving look anything like their counterparts. But hey, why let facts get in the way of TV entertainment.
@A1exx You were right. But do you reckon you'll be able to keep it for longer than 18 months this time? And try putting up a marginally better effort to retain it, 5-0 series do tend to become a bit 'boring'... :-)
The aussies tend to come across as having some kind of psychotic national/ jingoistic neediness to be successful at sport even if it means pushing the limits of sportsmanship. Whilst I agree not all aussies are like that the majority can dish it out but are first to complain when they get some back. Would you agree?
@NPA1001 Well it was all done for dramatic effect as per Chariots of Fire. The Field was used sparingly in reality. I remember an interview on Beeb in 1985 with Gubby Allen (who had spoken to Bradman) who said most of it was fiction. Good drama. He said The Don never held his bat up until later in his career afer scroring big as opposed to going out to bat. We won - the West Indies used similar tactics more effectively 50 years later.
@libertyordeaf I would agree that people who fail to see such comments in their proper contexts make fools of themselves as you have just proved. Further to this australians tend to overreact in a typical jingoistic aggressive manner whenever they perceive a comment is attacking 'oz' or is critical of anything 'aussie'. A certain number of australians appear incapable of identifying such subtle distinctions.And Libertyordeaf please don't think I am including you in this statistic.
watch "Don Bradman's last innings " on youtube, that was the real video of how it happened. This video is totally overacting and different from what really happened. Even bradman's own interview is in the above video.
Terrible directing, look how far the keeper and slips are back at 2:18! having an attacking field and 'men round the bat' doesn't mean you move the keeper and slips up ffs
@EnigmaticMayur what an excuse he has admitted he played a foul shot.Sachin played many bad shots.Sceince has proved bowlers were equally fast because human arms have not evolved .Techniques of fast bowling have not changed.It is same.By the way they are not actually playing
You don't see the New Zealander's feature film about Trevor Chapell's underarm ball.... bloody australians, can't take it, England were losing all through the 90s and early 2000s and the stadiums were always packed, you lot pottered off halfway through the 3rd test
YEAH, THEY DON'T MIND GIVING IT , sledging etc. but they dont like taking it Ask India about last test match series in Australia -listen to Shastri and Gavaskar, on Ponting "SNEAKING" and whinging to third umpire, that one of his players had been insulted LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Simmons is, and always was, a disreputable cricketer anyway-his career is over
This movie was fucken crap, when Bradman got out he just use to walk and acknowledge he got outplayed for that ball, this movie depicts him as some over dramatic crybaby, didn’t rate it at all, only good thing about it is the fact the movie is called ‘Bodyline’ good title for a film
Great to see an Australian crowd shut up.
It's the Australian mini series "Bodyline", a 7 parter made for TV in 1984.
This is "Bodyline", an Australian 7 part mini-series, made in the 1980's.
No way would he have been waving his bat to the crowd before he made a run. The Don was way too professional for that bollocks. I remember an interview with Gubby Allan about a year after this and he said it was fiction.
He was just acknowledging their need for a hero. His own need too.
Serves him right for saluting the crowd before he'd even faced a ball.
Not that that happened in real life....
For an example of this tempest try "Bodyline 37" for the effect on lesser batsmen. Larwood the bowler had a measured speed 100mph delivery. Bradman was probably the greatest batsman ever, this tactic was used to stop him.
this series was woefully inaccuarate, for a start, when it was Bradman's last innings, all the English applauded him and gave him three cheers.
Sorry, not the same innings at all. This is a TV film of the 1932/33 ashes series in Australia. The one you are refering to is 1948 ashes series in England. Same result though.
What a shame Larwood never played more tests, with a 1st class bowling avg under 18, and obviously the sheer pace he had, he would have taken over 300 wickets if he'd managed 75+ games, no problem at all, plus no easy wickets against poorer sides back then.
Legend for me though, and one of our best ever quicks, and no mug with the bat either.
So I guess Agent Smith was known as Captain Jardine in the "Cricketing Matrix". That would probably make Bradman "The One". ;)
Mr Bradman, it appears you have been leading 'two' lives.
According to the biography of the bowler Bowes "Jardine jumped around like a Red Indian doing a war dance when Bradman was bowled" this was a major surprise for his team as Jardine was considered dour and reserved even by the standards of the 1930's. Here this film just shows him smiling, It makes me wonder at the accuracy of the research for this series.
Correct, and Agent Smith.
Absolutely hilarious film this - I'd forgotten how funny it is. All that Jardine requires is a moustache to twirl. Classic Aussie Pom-bashing in the Mel Gibson "Gallipoli"/"Braveheart" mode.
Bradman was ill for the first test and didn't play. But this is the second test, and Bradman was fit for this innings.
If you watch the original version the English players gave the Don three cheers as he arrived at the crease. A nice gesture that was not in the clip above.
What law prevents bowlers from doing the same in the present day?
Law 41.5 states "At the instant of the bowler's delivery there shall not
be more than two fielders, other than the wicket-keeper, behind the
popping crease on the on side,"
commonly referred to as being "behind square leg". Additionally, Law
42.6(a) includes: "The bowling of fast short pitched balls is dangerous
and unfair if the umpire at the bowler's end considers that by their
repetition and taking into account their length, height and direction
they are likely to inflict physical injury on the striker".
Well, that makes Thomson and Lillee a pair of cheats, then. Or is it alright when Australians target batsmen?
Not to mention Croft, Garner, Holding, Marshall, Roberts, Bishop, Ambrose, Walsh, Paterson and 95% of the Windies attack in the last 50 years.
@ourvic Yes, I agree, it was nonsense. But dramatic recreations of historical events usually are. Larwood was a true gentleman of the game. The fact he later emigrated to Australia says much about him - and indeed about our attitude to 'bodyline'.
I can feel the pain
He was just 4 runs away for an average of 100
Mr Anderson...
Why is the slip cordon so close in? Was that the norm in those days, or is just so they didn't need a super wide shot to fit them onto the screen?
@MrDopey16 The key to leg theory is the field, which has been against the rules since bodyline. Short-pitched bowling with a conventional field is part of a fair contest. Leg theory is negative play designed to force a batsman to put self-preservation before the preservation of his wicket. If you don't understand the difference the field (and line) makes, you can't possibly understand why it ruins the contest between bat and ball.
@SJACK13 I would agree that people who make broad assessments of entire countries and the people who inhabit them are prone to making fools of themselves.
BLOODY BRILLIANT. MAKES ME PROUD TO BE ENGLISH.
That’s cute
99.94 makes me proud to be Australian ;)
I got my original 3 disk version from e-bay, but a word of caution, it's only available in PAL Region 4. So you either have to have a multi-region player, or decrypt it, copy and recode it using your computer. As for putting it all on RUclips, it's approx 330min long, so it's not worth the time and effort.
Elrond just owned bradman... never thought i'd say that in my life
Both Bodyline and the underarm incident were legal. Underarm bowling was illegal at the time, but this rule was left out for that competition only. Bodyline or leg theory had been used for quite some time. Jardin took it to its limit. LBW rules were a lot more strict. Only a straight ball would get LBW, any swing and the batsman would get the benefit of doubt. Umpires could have stopped it under the existing laws for intimidatory bowling. Both legal, but not in the spirit of the game.
@cavalier080854 A nice-sounding theory, only Hammond didn't bowl spin - he bowled brisk medium-pace. But you're right, Hammond was the 'English Don', he just average 40+ runs less.
@mikeylord1875 it was a new tactic, that has arguably become part of the test game, in short ball tactics, the rules have changed to prevent it happening to that extent again, very much like the no ball rule. The only difference was we bounced it on the pitch, and you didn't. At least they had a chance to hit it, unlike the New Zealand chap.
what film is this?
Agreed, but their was a battle between Wally Hammond and the Don, in this series. Hammond was freqently used as Englands only spin attack. Hammond is probably Englands equivalent of the Don, only he could bowl very well, as well as bat.
only hammond was a fast medium bowler!
i think you will find that tommy mitchell and hedley verity were the spinners.
The truth is, despite the video hyping it up - it was a non bodyline ball, and a non bodyline field. He simply edged the ball onto his stumps and was bowled.
i want a slow replay from another angle and the view from the stumps from the cam located on the stumps!! :P
Was this filmed in Sydney Cricket Ground?
This is the Australian mini series "Bodyline" and is about the most controversial test cricket series ever played in 1932/33. Australia accused England of being unsportsmanlike in the tactics used, the resulting accusations nearly resulted in Australia leaving the British Empire. Bodyline was made illegal as a result.
@uibyong
Not agreeable sir. Neither can he be rated as the best batsman nor the greatest cricketer. There can be endless debates on the greatest batsman but Sir Gary is undoubtedly the greatest cricketer.
Poms should have given Bradman a verbal send off
Jolly good show.
Bill Bowes was a medium pacer that's why the keeper and slips are up.
Lazyplaye is woefully inaccurate. Yes in 1948 16 years after the Bodyline series the English players clapped Bradman's last innings. In 1932 the stiff upper lip types wanted to defeat him at all cost.
wow what a passion for a player ?crowd absolutely silent when he is out.
these days it would be 'meat and drink' to modern batsmen, just gliding the ball off the hips for runs
Jardine did not move the field across to the Leg side in real life for this delivery, Bowes was bowling to traditional off side field. This needs remaking with greater accuracy and better actors. (Hugo Weaving the honourable exception)
Hugo Weaving is fantastic in this series
As an aussie cricket fanitic get it right...this movie was dribble....I was so embarrased I wrote to Harold Larwood in Sydney to apolgise and recieved a hand written letter back of thanks..He was a professional and cricket was a better prospect than the coal mines. Told what to achieve he hold no options, later the MCC under Plum Warner let him down unmercifully...
which film is it?
is this an actual film ???
This miniseries was as historically accurate as "Battle For The Planet of the Apes". There was no chanting Bradman's name, Jardine never wore the blue England cap (he wore the Harlequins cap) and neither Gary Sweet or Hugo Weaving look anything like their counterparts. But hey, why let facts get in the way of TV entertainment.
Also he wasn't out in this way.
kind of like a tempest in a teacup
ok thanks cav
cricket lovely cricket how much more can i say it.
Trinidadian calypso song
Yes, staring at the stumps, no way....
Where is the bit about the Aussies moaning for 80 years afterwards?
At the time it wasn't cheating, it was well within the rules. But thats not to say it wasn't unsportsmanlike.
@A1exx You were right. But do you reckon you'll be able to keep it for longer than 18 months this time? And try putting up a marginally better effort to retain it, 5-0 series do tend to become a bit 'boring'... :-)
@darkmossie633 Just glide it off the hip eh? Through both leg slips, a leg gully and two forward short legs? Good thinking!
The aussies tend to come across as having some kind of psychotic national/ jingoistic neediness to be successful at sport even if it means pushing the limits of sportsmanship. Whilst I agree not all aussies are like that the majority can dish it out but are first to complain when they get some back. Would you agree?
The Aussies couldn't even sing back then either.
Isn't it a bit rich of the Aussies to be whinging about bad sportsmanship? Underarm anyone?
ahhh I don't think it was this dramatic. When Bradman was bowled bodyline he was like wtf and Australia was like wtf and the rules where changed.
@NPA1001 Well it was all done for dramatic effect as per Chariots of Fire. The Field was used sparingly in reality. I remember an interview on Beeb in 1985 with Gubby Allen (who had spoken to Bradman) who said most of it was fiction. Good drama. He said The Don never held his bat up until later in his career afer scroring big as opposed to going out to bat. We won - the West Indies used similar tactics more effectively 50 years later.
Hey jardine leave our flies alone!
@lahiridilli i know its funny...that's why i said it to lighten the hardcore arguments/debates that will never end!
i dont get it was he not feeling well or something..i dont know the story so dont odee on me
@pobgill We stopped moaning after Lillee and Thomson got even in 1975. And they didn't need to pack the legside field to do it ;-)
Juked!!! hahaha.
that is not bradman
This shows even Don is weak against short-pitch ball, just like Sehwag and Sachin the so-called flat pitch bullies...!
U mad sachin was great against short ball
@libertyordeaf I would agree that people who fail to see such comments in their proper contexts make fools of themselves as you have just proved. Further to this australians tend to overreact in a typical jingoistic aggressive manner whenever they perceive a comment is attacking 'oz' or is critical of anything 'aussie'. A certain number of australians appear incapable of identifying such subtle distinctions.And Libertyordeaf please don't think I am including you in this statistic.
No the English could stomach it, so they found a weakness.
ok will do
@libertyordeaf as do Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke dummyspits
watch "Don Bradman's last innings " on youtube, that was the real video of how it happened. This video is totally overacting and different from what really happened. Even bradman's own interview is in the above video.
This is about the 1933 series, not Bradman’s last innings
Terrible directing, look how far the keeper and slips are back at 2:18! having an attacking field and 'men round the bat' doesn't mean you move the keeper and slips up ffs
@EnigmaticMayur what an excuse he has admitted he played a foul shot.Sachin played many bad shots.Sceince has proved bowlers were equally fast because human arms have not evolved .Techniques of fast bowling have not changed.It is same.By the way they are not actually playing
Gary Sweet...what a hunk :-)
mr anderson.
is this a joke??
tendulka
@hypersonicdragon
I can just laugh at u. I agree with enigmaticmayur. U keep on bowling that line to Sachin and runs will flow. This is all crap.
You don't see the New Zealander's feature film about Trevor Chapell's underarm ball.... bloody australians, can't take it, England were losing all through the 90s and early 2000s and the stadiums were always packed, you lot pottered off halfway through the 3rd test
@SJACK13 *yawwwwn*
YEAH, THEY DON'T MIND GIVING IT ,
sledging etc. but they dont like taking it
Ask India about last test match series in Australia
-listen to Shastri and Gavaskar, on Ponting "SNEAKING" and whinging to third umpire, that one of his players had been insulted LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simmons is, and always was, a disreputable cricketer anyway-his career is over
@gauthukut
Bodyline
@libertyordeaf best get to bed then dopey. School in the morning.
this is about The "Great Donald BRADMAN"
......not some tendulkar punk{who isn't the best of the modern era,Lara is}....lol
he was atully out second ball
This movie was fucken crap, when Bradman got out he just use to walk and acknowledge he got outplayed for that ball, this movie depicts him as some over dramatic crybaby, didn’t rate it at all, only good thing about it is the fact the movie is called ‘Bodyline’ good title for a film
It’s not a film
Flase movie
ill think you find its an indian whos #1