These fine gentlemen speak with a certain gravity that the words come alive bringing a certain dignity to the game itself. My dad would've loved to see this documentary! He passed away in 2007 at age 87. Bradman was his great sporting hero! Wonderful documentary. Thanks! 🇱🇰
Harold Larwood lived in Australia for half of his 90 years. He was warmly embraced by the Australian cricket community and was engaged in commentary on cricket matches.
@@mkrbrtsn1 - it is one of the more sad stories of cricket. If there was a good thing to come out of it though, he and his family apparently lived very happily in Sydney for 40+ years.
Brilliant documentary Jardine and Larwood are my heroes. Larwood was down the mines at 14. Jardine's daughter said her father was painfully shy and you can see from the footage he was anxious with his public speaking. Jardine was an enigma. He sent anonymous gifts to Oldfield's children after Oldfield fractured his skull. Not mentioned much is Larwood's 98 in the 5th test where supposedly the crowd cheered him on. Pity he never got a century. I love the word 'palaver' Larwood uses it here. Another great man Bob Paisley from the same upbringing use use that word too.
I am going to show this to my grandson to show him just how quick Larwood was and how great a batsman Bradman had become He still averaged over 50 in the body line series Many thanks. Mike ADAMS
@@markmooroolbark252I'm glad that he wasn't around during my formative years (he died twelve years before I was born). That sort of language is an abomination, and totally unnecessary!
Bradman is and was the greatest batsman of them all but he was frightened of Harold of that there is no doubt . What a bowler he was who even from such a long time ago you can see the perfection in his action - he was a real sporting hero and yet was treated abysmally by the MCC at the time He should have been given a medal the size of a dustbin for his efforts
@@sentimentalbloke185 - Harold got his revenge in spades in 1932-33 and the great Bradman did not enjoy it. I'm not here to criticise the Don because I do believe Bradman was and will always be the best batsman; his record will stand the test of time but I will defend also Larwood to the hilt. He was a terrific bowler and in that series seriously frightened the Aussies and that includes Bradman. However, instead of offering arguments lets just remember the bowler and the batter - both are legendary because they were both that good
He bowled a bouncer almost every ball when the bodyline field was in place. Had this tactic been allowed to continue, it would've destroyed the game. Larwood could be a bully toward low order batsman, read a bit about him. Bradman still averaged 57 & hit his famous century at Melbourne. To say he was scared is just bullshit.
Absolute tosh - Larwood the wrecker was simply too good for the Aussies including Bradman ... the fact that you still have to go on about it suggests you can't take the truth as it hurts ... please don't cry it was only a game Well done Jardine and the team for destroying the illusion of Aussie invincibility for that team... Bradman wasn't even liked by his own former team mates ... when he got a duck in his final test innings some of the Aussies were laughing at him - "In the press box, Jack Fingleton sat alongside Bill O’Reilly, and there had never been two greater lynchpins of the anti-Bradman brigade. When Bradman was bowled for a duck, the two of them burst into a spontaneous fit of uncontrolled laughter, “I thought they were going to have a stroke they were laughing so much,” reported a fellow commentator."
Hahahahaha .... that Bradman wasn't popular with some of his teammates is neither here nor there. If Larwood was so good, why resort to tactics that were unethical & threatened to ruin the game if continued? He got hammered in 28-9 & 1930, then when the Aussies returned to England in '34 he withdrew from a 'rematch' with Bradman. Larwood migrated to Australia in later life & was more accepted by Australians than by the English.
One thing worth noting - batting techniques were different back then. Batsmen stepped to the off side against leg-side short-pitched bowling ('getting inside the line'). It's particularly visible in the footage of Bowes bowling Bradman. It's a large part of the reason most of the injuries in that series were to the body rather than the head.
Interesting to see the footage of Jardine. Having read so much about him, much of it quite possibly uninformed, he doesn't come across as the Bradman-obsessed martinet he's portrayed to be. More to the point, most of his team seem to have had a lot of time for him. But, in 1932, the England team was still split between professionals and amateurs. And that's the key. Those who played the sport for a living as against those who played the sport for quite different reasons. And the latter, though becoming fewer in number, still held the upper hand when it came to administering the game and captaincy. As such, Jardine, a devout amateur yet a ruthless pragmatist, drove a schism through the English game. Ironically, his pragmatic attitude eventually became the norm, though he had long since been consigned to history.
He actually missed alot of Matches including tests due to work commitments. He was shunned in certain circles and after his premature death, his family had financial problems. His 16 year old son had to leave school and become a farm labourer. His daughter an air steward.
Apologise for what?? Doing as his captain asked? Larwood was made a scapegoat and never played for England again. Such a shame to see a great talent wasted due to bureaucracy. The documentary never discussed how terribly he was treated by the MCC.
@@waratahdavid696 Well, If you are talking life & Death as in what happened several years later..... Meaning war! No but, this is sport. The OP's point is valid, he was taking orders off his captain in a different more deferential time, even today you listen to you're captain or you will not be picked. Why was he made a point of?( I would say 'scapegoated' ) For being extremely talented, what a waste. Ask someone who knows this in Australia , Granted those people are dead . I mean correspondence wise official channels why were they so un-Australian? Oh yes it was a completely different era. I was born in 1976 and it is unrecognisable to me. So much pressure was put upon England for winning a game legally! Today it would be called being bad losers . It is obvious you live there/Born there... From you're name. Why wasn't the whole team( England)asked to Sign a appologetic letter? Australia just wanted to stop him touring again as they couldn't deal with his excellent, accurate, Express paced bowling. This benefitted Australia in the long run as they realised their wickets were ideal for a predominantly Fast bowling attack. Look at your current attack & going back To Thompson & Lillee in the 70/80s . A sad story in Australian cricket history .
Apolgies for what? I agree. Australia carried on like pork chops over leg theory.Aust had fast bowlers and could have played same game but didnt. It seems Aust's pressure effectively ended Larwoods career. Could have been settled in a far more gentlemanly way behind scenes if Aust and Woodful had not been so agressive and adamant England were being "unsporting".Woodfull was weak in not allowing Aust's bowlers to bowl leg theory back at England, they had the bowlers.
@@kevin8poison142 When the English saw it first hand in English domestic cricket, they understood the damage it would do to the game & took steps to stop it without altering the game's intrinsic nature. Then there was the use of bodyline when Jardine led England in India & the potential for crowd trouble was obvious. Just because something isn't expressly forbidden by the rules doesn't mean it wasn't unsporting & had potential to ruin the game.
@@sentimentalbloke185 I am quite aware of what you are saying and agree.However point was bodyline was used in Aust and i simply cannot understand why Aust did not use same methods , Aust had bowlers to do it, maybe not as well but basically giving what you get. It is almost un australian not to retaliate and to take moral highground as a white knight of cricket. I agree bowling fast balls cutting back towards a head is not what game is about and i dont agree with it, however Woodfull's approach was dangerous for his own batsmen. Being unarmed in a fight is not a good way to go.
Love the story of Jardine storming into the Australian dressing room and demanding an apology from the player that called him a bastard, Woodfull turned to his team mates and asked "Righto which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard? "
It's amazingly efficient. He bowled at what must have been 90mph (one documentary I saw clocked him into the low 140s km/h / high 80s mph) and had the sort of accuracy Jimmy Anderson is known for these days.
@@alfredjohnson2647 Good point. Most of the accurate bowlers (say, McGrath or Jimmy) are/were not express. And the express ones (Lee or Tait) were not the most accurate. But this magician Larwood was a combination of both, with a beautifully flawless action. Such a pity those jerks at the MCC banned him. Thankfully he was accepted and respected in Australia.
Absolutely. Ray Lindwall later copied Larwood's action when developing his bowling action. When this was pointed out he said "why shouldn't I copy the master".
@@westaussie965 No, but I have read many books from both the UK and Australia on Bodyline, and seen film footage. You do realise that 1930 was not the Stone Age? There are plenty of records available for study. Oldfield never blamed Larwood for his cracked skull, as he ducked into it, thinking it would bounce over his head, only he misjudged the speed. It was a fast ball, but a conventional field.
So what? It was pure luck that another nasty incident didn't occur. Why did Jardine decide to use leg theory when he saw Bradman flinch against Larwood in England on a rain effected pitch? If he didn't think that plan of attack didn't place the batsman in physical danger, why would he brand Bradman 'yellow" if facing leg theory didn't require courage?
@@markmooroolbark252 Leave courage out of it, it's a game for God's sake and they chose to be there. Not like the buggers who died in the war seven years later! Get a grip!
@@stephenwright1476 What a ridiculous comment. It takes great courage to face fast bowling without a helmet or any of the padding players wear today. It's for a good reason. You could end up unconscious with a fractured skull or broken ribs, fingers. Piers Morgan showed guts in facing an over from Brett Lee and had his ribs broken despite being padded up like Ned Kelly. Soldiers who have fought in wars and later take up boxing still get nervous before a fight. You have no idea. It's not an either/or situation. By the way, plenty of soldiers chose to go to war too-does that mean they shouldn't be afraid?
@@anweshchatterjee6565 yes as long as they know the perfume ball is coming anytime. When there's no fear, you see IPL batting. If we take the helmets out, we'll know who is comparable to Gavaskar and Richards.
A champion fast bowler with an attitude way ahead of his time. He had all the tools to be the most fearsome bowler in the world and he’d be that today. Tough as nails and played the game hard. The Australian reaction to bodyline looks rather embarrassing now.
Are you serious? Read your history. The poms squealed as soon as the same leg theory was used by the West Indian pace bowlers in England a short time later. You could literally be killed or have your ribs smashed, fingers broken etc.. They had minimal protection on uncovered wickets. I'd love to see you face one ball from a pace bowler with no helmet etc..
Looking at the statistics from the 1930 Ashes, Bradman's total of 974 runs in the 5 tests, the nearest of course anyone has ever got to 1000, was achieved in just 7 innings, 4 massive scores and, most amazingly, 3 low ones. If Australia hadn't won by an innings in the final test, it's therefore almost certain that Bradman would have made the runs needed for the magic 1000.
@@richardhall4830 We've already established that Bradman faced Tate for his first ball at Leeds. Wisden commented, "Larwood still looking very drawn as the result of his illness, had not the stamina to bowl at his full pace and was terribly expensive." www.espncricinfo.com/story/england-v-australia-1930-151744
If only Jardine could play cricket his own so called country stubbed him in the back larwood come to greatest country on earth to live his life ...all for nothing Jardine lost everything
Magnificent I cannot get enough of this. I always wonder, if Woodfull had done what VIC Richardson suggested, to give it back to the English, just how that would have panned out.
And Brian Statham.His pace was made more dangerous by his unerring accuracy. Ball by ball,over after over he was bang on the money : the batsmen could never take it easy or relax.When Typhoon Tyson destroyed the Aussies in 1955 ," George " Statham was at the other end shackling the batsmen ,grinding them down.BTW modern scientists have analysed film of Larwood's bowling and come up with the speed of 93/ 94 m.p.h for his stock deliveries and around 98/ 99 for his fast balls ,presumably the latter for the bodyline field ..In the mid 1970's Don Bradman commenting on the Ashes series in Australia ,said the fastest bowling he had ever seen was Jeff Thomson at Brisbane in 1974 with only Frank " Typhoon " Tyson possibly equal in speed .
With Larwood having later settled in Australia it would be a supreme irony if down the line one of his descendants reigned down fire🔥 and brimstone on the English batsmen one day.
@@marcusclark5330 A Catastrophe that man came into the England set up. One of the greatest Test Sides ever (South Africa)denied the stage because of the row that ensued over him. Look at the state of SA now. Politics in Sport always sucks.
23:00 As a young teen, I saw Jeff Thomson in a Test Match vs England at the very fast and bouncy WACA pitch (Perth) when he was at his prime. At the time, it was rumored you could not see the ball as a spectator. From the boundary, I could always see the ball. What made it difficult was that batsmen had so little time to react. Occasionally, when Thommo let one 'rip' a batsman would say they didn't see it. From my observation, what happens is that if the batsman misjudges the flight or the speed, he has too little time to refocus to where it actually is. In other words, you have too little time to regain it visually if you slightly misjudge the delivery.
Superb theory put in place by Jardine and executed to perfection by Larwood. It really shows that no batsman likes to play genuine quick bowling aimed at your body on a consistent basis. If a batsman says he enjoys playing fast bowling aimed at his body on a consistent basis then he is a liar. Viv Richards regarded by many as one of the best players of fast bowling also suffered when pitched against hostile and accurate bowling of Thomson and Lillee in 1975 series in Australia. The bodyline series exposed that Bradman was no better than any other average cricketer when it came to playing against fast and accurate bowling aimed at his body.
@@markmooroolbark252 why rubbish? His average was halved, and he chickened out. Jardine was a great captain and he was not called the greatest batsman of all time, so he would like that average. Watch the footage of how he plays the pace bowler during that series. He was scared of getting hit, so he doesn't come in line instead backs away. Tiger O'Reilley and Jack Fingleton and others saw Bradman was uncomfortable against the body line attack. Bradman is the greatest statistical batsman of all time on good wickets and against bowling that doesn't consistently bowl body line attack. His average was mediocre on sticky wickets which is well documented.
@@critical_analysis 56 isn’t mediocre you berk .. only a few batsmen in history have averaged better and no one has averaged better against consistent high pace attack .. let alone unhelmeted … 😂
Just come across this. Some points that do no not appear to have been picked up on in the comments. Leg theory was well known, and had been employed by Australians in the 20s, long before the 1932-33 series. ‘Bodyline’ was a term coined by the Aussie press. A lot has been said about Larwood’s pace compared to modern day bowlers, but little mention of the fact that before the front foot bowling change bowlers in those days were delivering the ball closer to the batsmen. A lot closer when they were able to drag their back foot through the crease. The ball would therefore be coming into the batsmen a lot quicker than it does now. The ‘Bodyline’ tv series contains a lot of inaccuracies and bias. For anyone really interested in the 32-33 series I recommend David Frith’s ‘Bodyline Autopsy’ for a more detailed, balanced view.
Mighty pathetic for the MCC to treat Larwood like that. And very poor indeed from Jardine to not take responsibility for Larwood. It was his plan and his orders Larwood was following.
True but Larwood was his own worse enemy. He didn't have to appologise but he could of kept his thoughts to himself instead of bagging the Australian players and crowds.
I believe that the next test series in England, the English backed away very quickly from leg side theory, when the Australians had bowlers that were more than capable of employing it.
It was the West Indies tour of England, but you are otherwise correct. The MCC didn't care to change the rules just because Australia complained - leg theory had won Nottinghamshire a couple of championships with it and they saw no problem. But when the Windies butchered them at home the MCC "conceded" that it wasn't a good look for the game and instituted the field limit behind square leg.
"Butchered them ".So apt a verb to describe what most very fast bowlers do to batsmen,and,let's face it,what the crowds expect them to do.I think fast bowlers draw the crowds because it invokes a gladiatorial aspect of the dual when sometimes the only defence against serious injury of the batsmen is that piece of willow.Certainly in1975 fresh from the battering of England in the Ashes tests Australia arrived here with the two " terror bowlers,Thomson and Lillee.Expecting blood,the crowds flocked back to cricket .In the world cup final ,that summer at Lord's the ground had a capacity of around 29,000 spectators.The staff at Lord's said with the demand for tickets so high to see Australia v West Indies,who had their own heavy artillery in Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts , they could have sold 250,000 tickets. It was superb,exciting game as well.Cricket, lovely cricket !!
20:22 umpire is looking at the whole run up of the bowler. In those days umpires used to do a lot of hardwork. Coz they had to check everthing as there was no technology.
Halcyon Days indeed. Played by gentleman whether deemed a player or gentleman by class. Never quite understood how Jardine could be an England player, let alone Captain. He was arguably one of England's best. Born in India of Scottish parents. I think Gubby Allen was the only fly in the ointment. Larwood superb, and a man of principle. The MCC tried to malign Larwood, as did some of those mendacious Gin n Tonic Brigade did to Freddie Truman in The 50's... For speaking the truth. They could not time bowlers back then, but now it can be seen Larwood could send the odd ball down at over 100 MPH, while regularly sending em down over 90 MPH. It would all seem tame later on, when you consider the sustained West Indies attack deployed in the 70's and 80's. Finally ... I wonder what Messrs Jardine, Larwood and Truman would of Black Lives Matter, then being asked to take The Kneel. ????...... "Well Bowled Harold"
Steven, you were doing well until roping in matters beyond the scope of this documentary. The Aussies ruined the spirit of cricket with their sledging directed at West Indies and the Indian Subcontinent. Sportsmen and women are entitled to show support for contemporary issues given there was a boycott of S Africa in my childhood. I think BLM is in the same spirit as that boycott.
@@a.m.armstrong8354 Absolute tosh.... Nothing wrong with a bit of banter...which what sledging is. It's always gone on and not confined to The Aussies.They did not invent it. They do whinge though...when they lose. Their media is brutal. Back in the day they complained as to leg theory bowling. England have never condemned sledging...just give it back. Sticks n Stones.Not sure where the boycott of SA comes into this equation... Or the abhorrent BLM movement. ???
Well it’s all surfacing again now after The Lords Debacle. Bairstow commits a schoolboy error and keeper plays to the rules .. not necessarily in the spirit of the game. I personally see nothing wrong in the keepers stumping. As to abhorrent.. It’s JARDINE view on how leg theory was dubbed. Again I not have a problem with it. My reflection on other situations with short pitched bowling is just to compare how matters and situations change. For now I feel England need to concentrate on the games left. Channel their Baz Ball efforts in accordance with the state of the game. 2 Tests lost gifting the Aussies who do adjust.. and win the game. As the English and Aussie media’s do battle.. all pointless and churlish Neither side have reason to whinge. Just do as the sign says at Lords Play up Play up and play the game. As to abhorrent.Unsportsmanlike Aussies have 2 players Smith and Warner found out to blatant cheating for ball tampering The ACB banned them to return in time to be ready for the next Ashes class Cynical. Unsportsmanlike?? Well I will just say. Aussie under arm bowling times 2. Hopefully the series can play out well I doubt it. 1932/33 Series will always resonate as long as these 2 nations play. I love England.. and I have a great love of the Australia nation and it’s folk That is all.😊
Funnily enough Jardine's son lived in South Africa and was a huge supporter of Mandela and was against apartheid. Jardine's daughter was a very well respected Minister in Scotland.
Bradman missed the 1st test due to illness. The row about his writing for a newspaper whilst playing was sorted out and he was going to play. Gubby Allen was right, Oldfield top edged it into his head and England weren’t employing bodyline during that passage of play.
What isn't often commented on is that Bodyline, as a tactic to restrict Bradman's scoring, worked! He 'only' averaged a shade under 57 in the Bodyline series. Briefly, he was mortal as opposed to a superhuman God in the guise of a batsman
Jardine was a brilliant captain. Beating Australia 4 - 1 in Australia and subduing Bradman. It doesn't get any better than that. England also won 4 - 1 in 1928/29 with a brilliant team and Jardine held his own as a batsman
My father told me that were ever Jardine fielded there was half eaten fruit surrounded him, thrown by the crowd. When Jardine tried to swat away a fly, someone yield out to leave our flies alone.
So it’s not ok to bowl to a leg side field catching, but its ok to bowl at the body with an offside field for the express purpose of threatening to hit the batsman, as countless Australian and West Indian (and other countries) fast bowlers have done since? Funny how losing has to be because of something that is “unfair”, rather than because you’ve been beaten by a tactic.
The way some sports can kick some of their great players in the teeth is quite appalling ! Sport unites the world in culture and friendship !! What happened to Larwood should never happen ! Sports need to look after their players , who most give great service to their clubs , communities , and their countries !!
The Sport has been doing it continually... Do you remember Getting calling out The Pakistan Umpire ?... "One rule For One ........" Normally frustrated officialdom, not good enough to play the game, let alone their country
Larwood genuine great. still looks quick...accurate, quick, no padding...game changer...do wish the aussies would stop moaning about it though...Lindwall, Miller,Lillee,Thomson,Merv Hughes, Mitchell Johnson all used intimidatory bowling and some of them would mouth off at the batsmen for good measure as well as dining out with crass "amusing anecdotes" about screaming in batsmen's faces etc...yet knock Sir Don's Baggy Green off, it was an outrage!
@@markmooroolbark252 Spot on. If it was just short bowling with normal fields, no problem. Australians admired the Windies bowling lineup in the 70s and 80s.
Nothing wrong with bodyline. A batsman cant say bowlers cant bowl that line, but should find a way to counter it. wish i could see a body line series now.
It would be as boring as batshit. Over after over of batsman ducking , weaving and defending. That's one of the reasons they changed the rules-it was grindingly boring.
@@karmicselling4252 it caused a diplomatic incident also. Worse than leg theory but not as bad as the sand paper. I have zero respect for the teams that don’t play with the spirit of the game. All cricket it valid these days, test, odi, 20/20 womens and mens.
He was also a great writer on cricket and joined stock busines after retiring...plus he was a tea totalled at that time it was rarest of rare case as everyone drank and smoke
He was a very good lawn tennis player and pretty good at golf too. In later life I believe he was able to get round the course in less than his age, e.g at age 73 he could sometimes get round in 72 or fewer strokes.
The thing about Sir Don is he moved his front foot to the pitch off the ball and hit the ball along the ground for 4's...he rarely hit 6's to avoid catches. That is why Jardine instructed the bowlers to bowl at the body, short pitched deliveries and kept the fielders in close on leg side for a snick that would come off the bat as the batsman ducked to avoid being hit by the ball. History confirms Bodyline bowling, supported by the poms, was dangerous and outlawed from Cricket.
This aired in late 1983, 7 months before the seven part series originally aired in Australia and over a year and half before it finally arrived on the BBC.
It should be noted that leg theory was used mainly to curb the Aussie scoring, and was primarily aimed at Bradman. Most of the wickets fell to conventional bowling and fields. Two of the most notorious incidents, involving Aussie batsmen occurred when leg theory was not being bowled. My recollection of the WI series is that the biggest issue was the painfully slow overrate and the number of bouncers bowled, which made scoring difficult. Rule changes came in to penalise slow over rates and restrict the numbe4 if bouncers per over as a result. Several England batsmen, including Boycott, were caught out on the boundary attempting hooks for six. Since the introduction of helmets and the reduction in bouncers hooking had become a dying art - it seems many of todays batsmen would rather duck or just let the ball hit them on the helmet. The best quicks I’ve seen in my lifetime have to be Thompson and Lillee - think how deadly they would have been in the days of uncovered wickets and the back foot bowling rule.
Not a question of having fast bolweres though. Both Wall and Alexander, who is interviewed here, were quick enough. But to bowl leg theory required accuracy which neither had. TBH, just enjoy listening to these fabulous cricketers from a bygone generation recalling the most dramatic series played before the horrors of WW2 engulfed everyone.
I used to live in Kingsford where he lived up to the end. This is about 10 minutes away from the Sydney Cricket Ground. His ashes are interred in a local Kingsford cemetery. As for bodyline, it was a blight on cricket and for good reasons, it was banned. If not, cricket would not be played today. Parents would stop their children from playing and that would mean no elite players. Simple as that. PS: He died in Randwick Hospital in '95 and in '99 my youngest son Joshua was born in that same hospital.
Imagine playing one of the fastest and accurate bowlers, bowling short on uncovered pitches with variable bounce without any head protection. Technically bowling short to a leg side field was not banned but made alot less effective with the fielding restrictions law. I agree that is was not good for the sport but someone would have come up with that tactic, if Bradman wasn't such a fantastic player maybe it would never have been invented.
@@bertcert991 - He was actually told to do it. He was English and played for the English. He was not an Aussie but he migrated to Australia and lived a quiet life. Maybe get a few facts straight before making comments?
I can't remember who said it...But in 1948,Tiger O Reilly,was doing radio commentary,at The Oval, when Bradman was bowled by Eric Hollis,who did him with a googly,stopping Bradman's 100 Test average....I'm sure,Tiger was quoted as laughing his arse off,& couldnt speak,as Bradman walked off... My point is, for all Bradman's success & genius,even among his own team mates,there was a level of disdain & weariness of 'The Don',& what he was like behind the scenes...
@@simongleaden2864 You mean cups of tea all round? Bradman was not the most popular in team. He had taken a contract to send newspaper articles back while touring.
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These fine gentlemen speak with a certain gravity that the words come alive bringing a certain dignity to the game itself. My dad would've loved to see this documentary! He passed away in 2007 at age 87. Bradman was his great sporting hero! Wonderful documentary. Thanks! 🇱🇰
Bradman was only a sportsman when Australia won he was like a spoilt child on this famous tour which resulted in an English triumph
Harold Larwood lived in Australia for half of his 90 years. He was warmly embraced by the Australian cricket community and was engaged in commentary on cricket matches.
Larwood and Trueman. English fast bowling greats from two generations. RIP.
Men who were respected by their opponents.
Rest in peace Mr larwood.
A man who stood up to crickets so called gentleman
And got shafted by the snobs at the MCC.
@@mkrbrtsn1 - it is one of the more sad stories of cricket. If there was a good thing to come out of it though, he and his family apparently lived very happily in Sydney for 40+ years.
WHEN AUSSIES WERE HIT BODYLINE WAS NOT BEING USED.
A SKIPPER RULES ON THE FIELD AND YOU FOLLOW HIS PLANS
@@joedexys the same argument was made about the great west Indian bowlers of 1976 to 1980
Sour grapes from bullies with the cricket 🏏 bats
@@tryarunm Did you complain when Thomson and Lillee were doing the same thing ?
It’s worth watching this to simply listen to Bill Bowes. Can’t tell you how much I love this. Thank you so much for the upload.
Exlent documentry well researched, and smartly edited
Wasn't Bowes a POW in World War Two, which affected him considerably?
It's a "bloody" disgrace what's Harold got to apologise for playing cricket for his country. What a legend he was for England.. R.I.P. Mr larwood.
Love hearing these older gentlemen talk about their experiences.
Brilliant documentary
Jardine and Larwood are my heroes.
Larwood was down the mines at 14.
Jardine's daughter said her father was painfully shy and you can see from the footage he was anxious with his public speaking.
Jardine was an enigma.
He sent anonymous gifts to Oldfield's children after Oldfield fractured his skull.
Not mentioned much is Larwood's 98 in the 5th test where supposedly the crowd cheered him on.
Pity he never got a century.
I love the word 'palaver'
Larwood uses it here.
Another great man Bob Paisley from the same upbringing use use that word too.
I am going to show this to my grandson to show him just how quick Larwood was and how great a batsman Bradman had become
He still averaged over 50 in the body line series
Many thanks. Mike ADAMS
Someone somewhere did an analysis and Larwood was clocked at 100 mph.
Incredible
Great programme. How polite the men used to be. No swear words or bad language, nobody losing their temper. Brilliant.
Jardine was apparently very free with the use of the f word and b word especially when playing Australians.
@@markmooroolbark252I'm glad that he wasn't around during my formative years (he died twelve years before I was born). That sort of language is an abomination, and totally unnecessary!
Harold Larwood.was a working class hero, a miner and one of us.
Paul Christopher Exactly, the toffs let him take the fall. No changes there.
Bradman is and was the greatest batsman of them all but he was frightened of Harold of that there is no doubt . What a bowler he was who even from such a long time ago you can see the perfection in his action - he was a real sporting hero and yet was treated abysmally by the MCC at the time
He should have been given a medal the size of a dustbin for his efforts
Bradman gave him a pounding in 28-29 and in 1930.
@@sentimentalbloke185 - Harold got his revenge in spades in 1932-33 and the great Bradman did not enjoy it. I'm not here to criticise the Don because I do believe Bradman was and will always be the best batsman; his record will stand the test of time but I will defend also Larwood to the hilt. He was a terrific bowler and in that series seriously frightened the Aussies and that includes Bradman. However, instead of offering arguments lets just remember the bowler and the batter - both are legendary because they were both that good
He bowled a bouncer almost every ball when the bodyline field was in place. Had this tactic been allowed to continue, it would've destroyed the game. Larwood could be a bully toward low order batsman, read a bit about him. Bradman still averaged 57 & hit his famous century at Melbourne. To say he was scared is just bullshit.
Absolute tosh - Larwood the wrecker was simply too good for the Aussies including Bradman ... the fact that you still have to go on about it suggests you can't take the truth as it hurts ... please don't cry it was only a game
Well done Jardine and the team for destroying the illusion of Aussie invincibility for that team...
Bradman wasn't even liked by his own former team mates ... when he got a duck in his final test innings some of the Aussies were laughing at him -
"In the press box, Jack Fingleton sat alongside Bill O’Reilly, and there had never been two greater lynchpins of the anti-Bradman brigade. When Bradman was bowled for a duck, the two of them burst into a spontaneous fit of uncontrolled laughter, “I thought they were going to have a stroke they were laughing so much,” reported a fellow commentator."
Hahahahaha .... that Bradman wasn't popular with some of his teammates is neither here nor there. If Larwood was so good, why resort to tactics that were unethical & threatened to ruin the game if continued? He got hammered in 28-9 & 1930, then when the Aussies returned to England in '34 he withdrew from a 'rematch' with Bradman. Larwood migrated to Australia in later life & was more accepted by Australians than by the English.
Bill Bowes - fantastic, riveting !
Like the whole programme in fact !
My Cousin!
I love to watch cricket historical footage ! Something special about it ! Baseball too I love to learn about the classic players !
One thing worth noting - batting techniques were different back then. Batsmen stepped to the off side against leg-side short-pitched bowling ('getting inside the line'). It's particularly visible in the footage of Bowes bowling Bradman. It's a large part of the reason most of the injuries in that series were to the body rather than the head.
Interesting to see the footage of Jardine. Having read so much about him, much of it quite possibly uninformed, he doesn't come across as the Bradman-obsessed martinet he's portrayed to be. More to the point, most of his team seem to have had a lot of time for him. But, in 1932, the England team was still split between professionals and amateurs. And that's the key. Those who played the sport for a living as against those who played the sport for quite different reasons. And the latter, though becoming fewer in number, still held the upper hand when it came to administering the game and captaincy. As such, Jardine, a devout amateur yet a ruthless pragmatist, drove a schism through the English game. Ironically, his pragmatic attitude eventually became the norm, though he had long since been consigned to history.
Beautifully summed up.
He actually missed alot of Matches including tests due to work commitments.
He was shunned in certain circles and after his premature death, his family had financial problems.
His 16 year old son had to leave school and become a farm labourer.
His daughter an air steward.
This is the kind of documentary that test cricket needs!!
Apologise for what?? Doing as his captain asked? Larwood was made a scapegoat and never played for England again. Such a shame to see a great talent wasted due to bureaucracy. The documentary never discussed how terribly he was treated by the MCC.
Following orders isn't much of a defence.
@@waratahdavid696 Well, If you are talking life & Death as in what happened several years later..... Meaning war! No but, this is sport.
The OP's point is valid, he was taking orders off his captain in a different more deferential time, even today you listen to you're captain or you will not be picked. Why was he made a point of?( I would say 'scapegoated' ) For being extremely talented, what a waste. Ask someone who knows this in Australia , Granted those people are dead . I mean correspondence wise official channels why were they so un-Australian? Oh yes it was a completely different era. I was born in 1976 and it is unrecognisable to me. So much pressure was put upon England for winning a game legally! Today it would be called being bad losers . It is obvious you live there/Born there... From you're name. Why wasn't the whole team( England)asked to Sign a appologetic letter? Australia just wanted to stop him touring again as they couldn't deal with his excellent, accurate, Express paced bowling.
This benefitted Australia in the long run as they realised their wickets were ideal for a predominantly Fast bowling attack.
Look at your current attack & going back To Thompson & Lillee in the 70/80s .
A sad story in Australian cricket history .
Apolgies for what? I agree. Australia carried on like pork chops over leg theory.Aust had fast bowlers and could have played same game but didnt. It seems Aust's pressure effectively ended Larwoods career. Could have been settled in a far more gentlemanly way behind scenes if Aust and Woodful had not been so agressive and adamant England were being "unsporting".Woodfull was weak in not allowing Aust's bowlers to bowl leg theory back at England, they had the bowlers.
@@kevin8poison142 When the English saw it first hand in English domestic cricket, they understood the damage it would do to the game & took steps to stop it without altering the game's intrinsic nature. Then there was the use of bodyline when Jardine led England in India & the potential for crowd trouble was obvious. Just because something isn't expressly forbidden by the rules doesn't mean it wasn't unsporting & had potential to ruin the game.
@@sentimentalbloke185 I am quite aware of what you are saying and agree.However point was bodyline was used in Aust and i simply cannot understand why Aust did not use same methods , Aust had bowlers to do it, maybe not as well but basically giving what you get. It is almost un australian not to retaliate and to take moral highground as a white knight of cricket.
I agree bowling fast balls cutting back towards a head is not what game is about and i dont agree with it, however Woodfull's approach was dangerous for his own batsmen. Being unarmed in a fight is not a good way to go.
Beautiful documentary.I only wish our current team had that spirit.
Great viewing, a fascinating insight into this famous cricket series.
I've been reading a book on Bodyline and to find this documentary with so much original footage is amazing.
Did everyone go to scg and just sit there watching the score board
Thank You for putting this up.It must over 35 years since I saw it originally..Many Thanks...
Love the story of Jardine storming into the Australian dressing room and demanding an apology from the player that called him a bastard, Woodfull turned to his team mates and asked "Righto which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard? "
Larwood's action is beautiful.
It's amazingly efficient. He bowled at what must have been 90mph (one documentary I saw clocked him into the low 140s km/h / high 80s mph) and had the sort of accuracy Jimmy Anderson is known for these days.
Indeed, he's like a stately galleon, albeit a jet-powered one. Voce's action looks pretty close to throwing, with a pretty straight arm.
@@alfredjohnson2647 Good point. Most of the accurate bowlers (say, McGrath or Jimmy) are/were not express. And the express ones (Lee or Tait) were not the most accurate. But this magician Larwood was a combination of both, with a beautifully flawless action. Such a pity those jerks at the MCC banned him. Thankfully he was accepted and respected in Australia.
Absolutely. Ray Lindwall later copied Larwood's action when developing his bowling action. When this was pointed out he said "why shouldn't I copy the master".
'Bairstow was out' - MCC member 1983 (probably)
Larwood was a working class hero. Born out his time.
And he moved to live in Australia.
@@venderstrat cos the posh class system was and still is awful
@@venderstrat - And the Aussies love him
He was a miner working down the pit. You compare that to the rest of the Team.
The two worst incidents on that tour - Woodfull being hit over the heart and Oldfield being hit on the head - were NOT bowled to bodyline fields.
You there were you? Funny how it happened then ey?
@@westaussie965 No, but I have read many books from both the UK and Australia on Bodyline, and seen film footage. You do realise that 1930 was not the Stone Age? There are plenty of records available for study.
Oldfield never blamed Larwood for his cracked skull, as he ducked into it, thinking it would bounce over his head, only he misjudged the speed. It was a fast ball, but a conventional field.
So what? It was pure luck that another nasty incident didn't occur. Why did Jardine decide to use leg theory when he saw Bradman flinch against Larwood in England on a rain effected pitch? If he didn't think that plan of attack didn't place the batsman in physical danger, why would he brand Bradman 'yellow" if facing leg theory didn't require courage?
@@markmooroolbark252 Leave courage out of it, it's a game for God's sake and they chose to be there. Not like the buggers
who died in the war seven years later! Get a grip!
@@stephenwright1476 What a ridiculous comment. It takes great courage to face fast bowling without a helmet or any of the padding players wear today. It's for a good reason. You could end up unconscious with a fractured skull or broken ribs, fingers. Piers Morgan showed guts in facing an over from Brett Lee and had his ribs broken despite being padded up like Ned Kelly.
Soldiers who have fought in wars and later take up boxing still get nervous before a fight. You have no idea. It's not an either/or situation.
By the way, plenty of soldiers chose to go to war too-does that mean they shouldn't be afraid?
Fantastic. Never seen Gubby Allen interviewed before
The best RUclips video I have ever watched!
What a fantastic documentary. Thank you for uploading it!
What a bowler he must have been !! Making Bradman look human !!
Its appaling that bowlers were expected to bowl outside off stump in those days. No wonder Don was never properly challenged except in that series.
@@anbee8127 The best test match line for pacers to top order batsmen is still the fourth stump line, in the corridor of uncertainty.
@@anweshchatterjee6565 yes as long as they know the perfume ball is coming anytime. When there's no fear, you see IPL batting. If we take the helmets out, we'll know who is comparable to Gavaskar and Richards.
Yeah, Bradman only averaged 56 in that series. Only.
Yeah ! 55 as a career average would be considered outstanding for other players !
By gum, that Larwood chap was fast and his action looked so beautifully efficient.
A champion fast bowler with an attitude way ahead of his time. He had all the tools to be the most fearsome bowler in the world and he’d be that today. Tough as nails and played the game hard. The Australian reaction to bodyline looks rather embarrassing now.
Are you serious? Read your history. The poms squealed as soon as the same leg theory was used by the West Indian pace bowlers in England a short time later. You could literally be killed or have your ribs smashed, fingers broken etc.. They had minimal protection on uncovered wickets. I'd love to see you face one ball from a pace bowler with no helmet etc..
Great to see the characters involved talking.
Genius Mr Jardine was.
This is gold ...
Looking at the statistics from the 1930 Ashes, Bradman's total of 974 runs in the 5 tests, the nearest of course anyone has ever got to 1000, was achieved in just 7 innings, 4 massive scores and, most amazingly, 3 low ones. If Australia hadn't won by an innings in the final test, it's therefore almost certain that Bradman would have made the runs needed for the magic 1000.
@@richardhall4830 We've already established that Bradman faced Tate for his first ball at Leeds. Wisden commented, "Larwood still looking very drawn as the result of his illness, had not the stamina to bowl at his full pace and was terribly expensive." www.espncricinfo.com/story/england-v-australia-1930-151744
his 975 was iconic but the comback ashes series 758 runs against england was justice well served!!!
Hammond scored 905 runs in 1928/29.
He was the greatest batsman until Bradman overshadowed him
@@randyborstol2491 And, right now, Crawley has become this year's Ashes highest scorer with fewer than 400 runs!
Top film. First time I've heard a proper account of it. Very commendable.
Very nice documentary.
A wonderful documentary.
What a fantastic documentary, thanks for sharing.
Jardine was a brilliant tactician and captain. And Larwood would go through a wall for him.
he was an unfair dirty bastard
Jardine was an angry overbearing little man with a chip on his shoulder
If only Jardine could play cricket his own so called country stubbed him in the back larwood come to greatest country on earth to live his life ...all for nothing Jardine lost everything
Wish I was around in them days
Magnificent I cannot get enough of this. I always wonder, if Woodfull had done what VIC Richardson suggested, to give it back to the English, just how that would have panned out.
Vic is my favourite Test Captain before the war.
Larwood and Trueman together, two of England's greatest bowlers from different era's, probably the fastest English bowlers ever.
Check out Frank Tyson.
And Brian Statham.His pace was made more dangerous by his unerring accuracy. Ball by ball,over after over he was bang on the money : the batsmen could never take it easy or relax.When Typhoon Tyson destroyed the Aussies in 1955 ," George " Statham was at the other end shackling the batsmen ,grinding them down.BTW modern scientists have analysed film of Larwood's bowling and come up with the speed of 93/ 94 m.p.h for his stock deliveries and around 98/ 99 for his fast balls ,presumably the latter for the bodyline field ..In the mid 1970's Don Bradman commenting on the Ashes series in Australia ,said the fastest bowling he had ever seen was Jeff Thomson at Brisbane in 1974 with only Frank " Typhoon " Tyson possibly equal in speed .
Not even close
I bet Bradman's next door neighbours were extremely happy, listening to him whacking a golf ball at a fence all day long.
What neighbours in country town
That photo at 40:05 showing the expression on Larwood's face as it pans outwards to show Woodfull ducking and the packed onside field is iconic.
Fantastic. Thank you.
Liked O'Reily reply regarding batting against Larwood's bowing
Oh blimey. I remember watching this not long after it was first shown. There was a TV miniseries a year later. Shocking, really.
ruclips.net/video/A-3MkGh096E/видео.html
Amazing days and amazing performances. Uncovered wickets. Inferior equipment. Larger grounds by comparison to today. Less physical prowess.
Great work
With Larwood having later settled in Australia it would be a supreme irony if down the line one of his descendants reigned down fire🔥 and brimstone on the English batsmen one day.
There was an excellent tv series made of this,worth looking up
Don’t look it up - it’s utter garbage
@@markbailey1970 fricken whinging pom
@@markbailey1970 mmmm. English are ya?😂
just beautiful
Gubby Allen a true sportsmen who stood up for what he believed was right and history proves he was
Not sure basil doliveira would agree with you... He had some 'interesting' and views and attitudes
We would not have won the ashes were we to adopt Allen's approach... Remember the 2-0 lead he squandered when he had his chance as Captain.
@@marcusclark5330 A Catastrophe that man came into the England set up. One of the greatest Test Sides ever (South Africa)denied the stage because of the row that ensued over him. Look at the state of SA now. Politics in Sport always sucks.
Larwood, Voce & Hardstaff all from my home village of Nuncargate. Legends 😃
This is how cricket should always be played. Like true gentlemen.
Kennedy-Miller makers of such films as Mad Max, Happy Feet and Babe produced a mini-series about the Bodyline series in the 1980's.
23:00 As a young teen, I saw Jeff Thomson in a Test Match vs England at the very fast and bouncy WACA pitch (Perth) when he was at his prime. At the time, it was rumored you could not see the ball as a spectator.
From the boundary, I could always see the ball. What made it difficult was that batsmen had so little time to react.
Occasionally, when Thommo let one 'rip' a batsman would say they didn't see it. From my observation, what happens is that if the batsman misjudges the flight or the speed, he has too little time to refocus to where it actually is. In other words, you have too little time to regain it visually if you slightly misjudge the delivery.
Superb theory put in place by Jardine and executed to perfection by Larwood. It really shows that no batsman likes to play genuine quick bowling aimed at your body on a consistent basis. If a batsman says he enjoys playing fast bowling aimed at his body on a consistent basis then he is a liar.
Viv Richards regarded by many as one of the best players of fast bowling also suffered when pitched against hostile and accurate bowling of Thomson and Lillee in 1975 series in Australia.
The bodyline series exposed that Bradman was no better than any other average cricketer when it came to playing against fast and accurate bowling aimed at his body.
What a moronic statement.
Utter rubbish. Bradman still averaged 54 in the bodyline series when he was called a failure. Jardine would have killed for that average.
Don't think Bradman had a helmet on...
Just sayin😊
@@markmooroolbark252 why rubbish? His average was halved, and he chickened out. Jardine was a great captain and he was not called the greatest batsman of all time, so he would like that average. Watch the footage of how he plays the pace bowler during that series. He was scared of getting hit, so he doesn't come in line instead backs away. Tiger O'Reilley and Jack Fingleton and others saw Bradman was uncomfortable against the body line attack.
Bradman is the greatest statistical batsman of all time on good wickets and against bowling that doesn't consistently bowl body line attack. His average was mediocre on sticky wickets which is well documented.
@@critical_analysis 56 isn’t mediocre you berk .. only a few batsmen in history have averaged better and no one has averaged better against consistent high pace attack .. let alone unhelmeted … 😂
Just come across this. Some points that do no not appear to have been picked up on in the comments.
Leg theory was well known, and had been employed by Australians in the 20s, long before the 1932-33 series. ‘Bodyline’ was a term coined by the Aussie press.
A lot has been said about Larwood’s pace compared to modern day bowlers, but little mention of the fact that before the front foot bowling change bowlers in those days were delivering the ball closer to the batsmen. A lot closer when they were able to drag their back foot through the crease. The ball would therefore be coming into the batsmen a lot quicker than it does now.
The ‘Bodyline’ tv series contains a lot of inaccuracies and bias. For anyone really interested in the 32-33 series I recommend David Frith’s ‘Bodyline Autopsy’ for a more detailed, balanced view.
Mighty pathetic for the MCC to treat Larwood like that. And very poor indeed from Jardine to not take responsibility for Larwood. It was his plan and his orders Larwood was following.
True but Larwood was his own worse enemy. He didn't have to appologise but he could of kept his thoughts to himself instead of bagging the Australian players and crowds.
Harold Larwood a great bowler and man of dignity. Gubby Allen colossal snob
Gubby Allen had his faults but he was a very good cricketer too.
@@simongleaden2864 but a massive snob
I believe that the next test series in England, the English backed away very quickly from leg side theory, when the Australians had bowlers that were more than capable of employing it.
It was the West Indies tour of England, but you are otherwise correct. The MCC didn't care to change the rules just because Australia complained - leg theory had won Nottinghamshire a couple of championships with it and they saw no problem.
But when the Windies butchered them at home the MCC "conceded" that it wasn't a good look for the game and instituted the field limit behind square leg.
"Butchered them ".So apt a verb to describe what most very fast bowlers do to batsmen,and,let's face it,what the crowds expect them to do.I think fast bowlers draw the crowds because it invokes a gladiatorial aspect of the dual when sometimes the only defence against serious injury of the batsmen is that piece of willow.Certainly in1975 fresh from the battering of England in the Ashes tests Australia arrived here with the two " terror bowlers,Thomson and Lillee.Expecting blood,the crowds flocked back to cricket .In the world cup final ,that summer at Lord's the ground had a capacity of around 29,000 spectators.The staff at Lord's said with the demand for tickets so high to see Australia v West Indies,who had their own heavy artillery in Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts , they could have sold 250,000 tickets. It was superb,exciting game as well.Cricket, lovely cricket !!
Superb programme - compare to the toss you see elsewhere on Bodyline
I love that England were able to keep Bradmans average to only 56. That's pretty much the England's team average at the moment.
20:22 umpire is looking at the whole run up of the bowler. In those days umpires used to do a lot of hardwork. Coz they had to check everthing as there was no technology.
Brilliant share...cheers
I have seen him first time playing piano
Halcyon Days indeed. Played by gentleman whether deemed a player or gentleman by class. Never quite understood how Jardine could be an England player, let alone Captain. He was arguably one of England's best. Born in India of Scottish parents. I think Gubby Allen was the only fly in the ointment. Larwood superb, and a man of principle. The MCC tried to malign Larwood, as did some of those mendacious Gin n Tonic Brigade did to Freddie Truman in The 50's... For speaking the truth. They could not time bowlers back then, but now it can be seen Larwood could send the odd ball down at over 100 MPH, while regularly sending em down over 90 MPH. It would all seem tame later on, when you consider the sustained West Indies attack deployed in the 70's and 80's. Finally ... I wonder what Messrs Jardine, Larwood and Truman would of Black Lives Matter, then being asked to take The Kneel. ????......
"Well Bowled Harold"
Steven, you were doing well until roping in matters beyond the scope of this documentary. The Aussies ruined the spirit of cricket with their sledging directed at West Indies and the Indian Subcontinent. Sportsmen and women are entitled to show support for contemporary issues given there was a boycott of S Africa in my childhood. I think BLM is in the same spirit as that boycott.
@@a.m.armstrong8354 Absolute tosh.... Nothing wrong with a bit of banter...which what sledging is. It's always gone on and not confined to The Aussies.They did not invent it. They do whinge though...when they lose. Their media is brutal. Back in the day they complained as to leg theory bowling. England have never condemned sledging...just give it back. Sticks n Stones.Not sure where the boycott of SA comes into this equation... Or the abhorrent BLM movement. ???
@@barney42bbswbWhat’s abhorrent about it? Genuinely curious.
Well it’s all surfacing again now after The Lords Debacle.
Bairstow commits a schoolboy error and keeper plays to the rules .. not necessarily in the spirit of the game.
I personally see nothing wrong in the keepers stumping.
As to abhorrent.. It’s JARDINE view on how leg theory was dubbed.
Again I not have a problem with it.
My reflection on other situations with short pitched bowling is just to compare how matters and situations change.
For now I feel England need to concentrate on the games left.
Channel their Baz Ball efforts in accordance with the state of the game.
2 Tests lost gifting the Aussies who do adjust.. and win the game.
As the English and Aussie media’s do battle.. all pointless and churlish
Neither side have reason to whinge.
Just do as the sign says at Lords
Play up Play up and play the game.
As to abhorrent.Unsportsmanlike
Aussies have 2 players Smith and Warner found out to blatant cheating for ball tampering
The ACB banned them to return in time to be ready for the next Ashes class
Cynical.
Unsportsmanlike??
Well I will just say.
Aussie under arm bowling times 2.
Hopefully the series can play out well
I doubt it.
1932/33 Series will always resonate as long as these 2 nations play.
I love England.. and I have a great love of the Australia nation and it’s folk
That is all.😊
Funnily enough Jardine's son lived in South Africa and was a huge supporter of Mandela and was against apartheid.
Jardine's daughter was a very well respected Minister in Scotland.
Bradman missed the 1st test due to illness.
The row about his writing for a newspaper whilst playing was sorted out and he was going to play.
Gubby Allen was right, Oldfield top edged it into his head and England weren’t employing bodyline during that passage of play.
Can I have another man on the leg side? NO!
Skipper, can I have another man on the leg side? NO!!
What isn't often commented on is that Bodyline, as a tactic to restrict Bradman's scoring, worked! He 'only' averaged a shade under 57 in the Bodyline series. Briefly, he was mortal as opposed to a superhuman God in the guise of a batsman
Jardine was a brilliant captain.
Beating Australia 4 - 1 in Australia and subduing Bradman.
It doesn't get any better than that.
England also won 4 - 1 in 1928/29 with a brilliant team and Jardine held his own as a batsman
My father told me that were ever Jardine fielded there was half eaten fruit surrounded him, thrown by the crowd. When Jardine tried to swat away a fly, someone yield out to leave our flies alone.
The last ditty was credited to the great Yabba. There is a dedication statue to him on the first row of the fence at the olld SCG Hill.
A statue dedicated to an uncouth lout how typically Australian
Jardine = Ashes!!! Job done!!!
what a strong statement from Jardines mother.. !!
Fascinating to see how much the producers assumed an audience well informed on cricket.
Would love to know how many times Mr Bradman was given out LBW in Australia. Can anyone help?
Larwood was betrayed by the snobs that ran English cricket
So it’s not ok to bowl to a leg side field catching, but its ok to bowl at the body with an offside field for the express purpose of threatening to hit the batsman, as countless Australian and West Indian (and other countries) fast bowlers have done since? Funny how losing has to be because of something that is “unfair”, rather than because you’ve been beaten by a tactic.
The leg theory was far more restricting. It would have killed cricket. It would have died as a result of mind-numbing boredom for the spectators.
The way some sports can kick some of their great players in the teeth is quite appalling ! Sport unites the world in culture and friendship !! What happened to Larwood should never happen ! Sports need to look after their players , who most give great service to their clubs , communities , and their countries !!
Full of shit
The Sport has been doing it continually... Do you remember Getting calling out The Pakistan Umpire ?... "One rule For One ........" Normally frustrated officialdom, not good enough to play the game, let alone their country
Imagine trying to explain cricket to PM Ramsay MacDonald under presure.
Larwood genuine great. still looks quick...accurate, quick, no padding...game changer...do wish the aussies would stop moaning about it though...Lindwall, Miller,Lillee,Thomson,Merv Hughes, Mitchell Johnson all used intimidatory bowling and some of them would mouth off at the batsmen for good measure as well as dining out with crass "amusing anecdotes" about screaming in batsmen's faces etc...yet knock Sir Don's Baggy Green off, it was an outrage!
Hypocrisy. Most countries have it from time time.
Spot On.
It's not about intimidatory bowling-it's bowling to a packed legside. That's the point.
@@markmooroolbark252 Spot on. If it was just short bowling with normal fields, no problem. Australians admired the Windies bowling lineup in the 70s and 80s.
@@democracymanifest8256 And the WI were fearsome but respected. That great team took no prisoners.
Nothing wrong with bodyline. A batsman cant say bowlers cant bowl that line, but should find a way to counter it. wish i could see a body line series now.
It would be as boring as batshit. Over after over of batsman ducking , weaving and defending. That's one of the reasons they changed the rules-it was grindingly boring.
There was only one Bradman ! How many times have I cursed Eric Hollis for dismissing him , and robbing him of his 100 average .
That was good analysis and good tactics: good cricket. Underarm bowling at New Zealand by Australia was definitely not cricket.
Test Cricket is cricket. The Pyjama game isn't really cricket. The infamous underam bowling incident was much ado about pyjamas.
@@karmicselling4252 it caused a diplomatic incident also. Worse than leg theory but not as bad as the sand paper. I have zero respect for the teams that don’t play with the spirit of the game. All cricket it valid these days, test, odi, 20/20 womens and mens.
Bowes has the side skip delivery stride - like Thommo. 20:23
I love the bit about Bradman failing: He only averaged 56!!!!!!!!!
Bloody hell, what's going on? I've found an article that isn't ruined with subcontinent schoolboy remarks. Heaven.
And the Aussies have been using it as an excuse to push the boundaries of 'fair play' ever since.
Ironic considering your team only bowls short and aggressive now
dafaq bradman could play piano too? Is he God!
He was also a great writer on cricket and joined stock busines after retiring...plus he was a tea totalled at that time it was rarest of rare case as everyone drank and smoke
He was a very good lawn tennis player and pretty good at golf too. In later life I believe he was able to get round the course in less than his age, e.g at age 73 he could sometimes get round in 72 or fewer strokes.
Cricket fans as a Lancashire man I find it rather strange that the great man never did his best old at old Trafford as the records show.
Sadly not mentioned here but Lancashire's Eddie Paynter was the hero in the 4th test.
It was well covered in the TV series. Heroic.
The thing about Sir Don is he moved his front foot to the pitch off the ball and hit the ball along the ground for 4's...he rarely hit 6's to avoid catches. That is why Jardine instructed the bowlers to bowl at the body, short pitched deliveries and kept the fielders in close on leg side for a snick that would come off the bat as the batsman ducked to avoid being hit by the ball. History confirms Bodyline bowling, supported by the poms, was dangerous and outlawed from Cricket.
Did the Australian TV series BODYLINE came first or this Documentary?? As the 7 Episodes are perfectly compressed into 40 min here.
This aired in late 1983, 7 months before the seven part series originally aired in Australia and over a year and half before it finally arrived on the BBC.
@@Nlogax The Australian mini-series wasn't a documentary, it was a dramatization that took some liberties with the truth.
@@sentimentalbloke185 Don Bradman said "Bodyline" (the series) was 10% truth and 90% pantomime.
@@simongleaden2864 Not sure it was that high (90%) but it was the first job for Hugo Weaving, as Douglas Jardine.
England restricted Bradman to an average of only 56!!
Manageable I suppose.
Just imagine Viv Richards facing this kind of bowling
Viv Richards would have destroyed this kind of bowling and field placement
Imagine Sachin the king 👑 would of made 300 b4 lunch
It should be noted that leg theory was used mainly to curb the Aussie scoring, and was primarily aimed at Bradman. Most of the wickets fell to conventional bowling and fields. Two of the most notorious incidents, involving Aussie batsmen occurred when leg theory was not being bowled.
My recollection of the WI series is that the biggest issue was the painfully slow overrate and the number of bouncers bowled, which made scoring difficult. Rule changes came in to penalise slow over rates and restrict the numbe4 if bouncers per over as a result. Several England batsmen, including Boycott, were caught out on the boundary attempting hooks for six. Since the introduction of helmets and the reduction in bouncers hooking had become a dying art - it seems many of todays batsmen would rather duck or just let the ball hit them on the helmet.
The best quicks I’ve seen in my lifetime have to be Thompson and Lillee - think how deadly they would have been in the days of uncovered wickets and the back foot bowling rule.
Australia had fast bowlers too back then. If we dished it (bodyline) back at England it would have lasted one match.
Not a question of having fast bolweres though. Both Wall and Alexander, who is interviewed here, were quick enough. But to bowl leg theory required accuracy which neither had.
TBH, just enjoy listening to these fabulous cricketers from a bygone generation recalling the most dramatic series played before the horrors of WW2 engulfed everyone.
Wanker.
@@peterwalker5433 Don't have to be abusive
I used to live in Kingsford where he lived up to the end. This is about 10 minutes away from the Sydney Cricket Ground. His ashes are interred in a local Kingsford cemetery.
As for bodyline, it was a blight on cricket and for good reasons, it was banned. If not, cricket would not be played today. Parents would stop their children from playing and that would mean no elite players. Simple as that.
PS: He died in Randwick Hospital in '95 and in '99 my youngest son Joshua was born in that same hospital.
Imagine playing one of the fastest and accurate bowlers, bowling short on uncovered pitches with variable bounce without any head protection.
Technically bowling short to a leg side field was not banned but made alot less effective with the fielding restrictions law.
I agree that is was not good for the sport but someone would have come up with that tactic, if Bradman wasn't such a fantastic player maybe it would never have been invented.
Horrible man poor sportsman didn’t like losing (typical uncouth Aussie)
@@bertcert991 - He was actually told to do it. He was English and played for the English. He was not an Aussie but he migrated to Australia and lived a quiet life.
Maybe get a few facts straight before making comments?
I can't remember who said it...But in 1948,Tiger O Reilly,was doing radio commentary,at The Oval, when Bradman was bowled by Eric Hollis,who did him with a googly,stopping Bradman's 100 Test average....I'm sure,Tiger was quoted as laughing his arse off,& couldnt speak,as Bradman walked off...
My point is, for all Bradman's success & genius,even among his own team mates,there was a level of disdain & weariness of 'The Don',& what he was like behind the scenes...
Apparently, he was rather mean with his money and rarely bought a round of drinks.
The same could be said for Michael Jordan and many other sporting legends. It's all about big egos and envy.
@@simongleaden2864 You mean cups of tea all round?
Bradman was not the most popular in team. He had taken a contract to send newspaper articles back while touring.