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Bodyline Autopsy: The Full Story of the Most Sensational Test Cricket Series – England v Australia 1932- 3
Author(s): David Frith (Author)
- Publisher: Aurum Press
- Publication Date: 25 Nov. 2002
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 500 pages
- ISBN-10: 1854108964
- ISBN-13: 9781854108968
Book Description
Fast bowling and controversy have been inseparable since cricket began, but there has never been a more clamorous uproar than that which occurred during the 1932-33 Test series between Australia and England. England, led by the haughty and slightly mystical Douglas Jardine, had the fastest and most accurate bowler in the world: Harold Larwood. Australia boasted the most prolific scorer of runs the game had ever seen: young Don Bradman, who had punished England’s bowlers mercilessly during the 1930 tour. He had to be stopped. Jardine had the weapon and the strategy. The leg-side bouncer onslaught inflicted on Bradman and other Australian batsmen in 1932-33 by Larwood and Bill Voce, with a ring of fieldsmen waiting for catches, caused outrage at the highest level of government. Bodyline, as this infamous technique came to be known, was repugnant to the majority of cricket-lovers, and ultimately outlawed. In this work, David Frith has provided a history replete with anecdote on a sporting scandal that, 70 years on, continues to inspire controversy.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Frith’s account is packed with fascinating detail and anecdote. His description of the Test matches could hardly be more gripping. — Leo McKinstry, Sunday Telegraph, 24 November 2002
No-one can touch Frith when it comes to meticulous gathering of red-hot cricketing material… Frith has done a wonderful job with this bitter tale. —
Simon Barnes, The Times 23 November 2002About the Author
David Frith is one of cricket’s most distinguished authors. A former editor of The Cricketer, he founded Wisden Cricket Monthly in 1979 and ran it for 17 years. His other books include a pictorial history of Ashes Tests (the first 1,000-picture cricket book); The Trailblazers, a reconstruction of the first ever English tour of Australia; Silence of the Heart, his acclaimed study of cricket suicides; The Fast Men, a study of fast bowlers, and biographies of such disparate cricketers as John Edrich and Jeff Thomson. He lives in Guildford, Surrey.
