@slashx16 yeah. exactly the english always have some problem with other people who are better then them. nowadays Pakistan is playing against england it's pretty crappy how the british media treats em
To show haow poor these desperate tactic was back then ( different these days with the amazing protection Larwood ( one of the great bowlers) fell out with Jardine ended his years in australia ended up mates with Bradman
To those people whinging that he shouldve used his bat. Please understand that no one had ever batted against this type of bowling. How were they meant to change their batting in the middle of a game? Also, even with bodyline, Bradman came back a while later and tonked the poms all over again. Greatest batter in all time history, there will never EVER be another one.
@DoctorScrumpy harsh old words... all i'm saying is that leg theory makes games boring and is unfair, i'm just glad it was flagged up by this series in particular. But then agan I may be wrong I suppose...
The 'Bradman' wicket is not out. Pitched outside the line and was missing off stump. I remember watching this whole series with a another cricket tragic friend and picking out all the cricketing anomalies haha.
@shaheryarify Speaking of cowardly, how about the time the Aussies bowled underarm so a New Zealand batsman couldn't score a six on the last ball of the game?
As an Englishman, I do believe this was a disgraceful tactic to be employed against such a good Aussie team. On the other hand, I'm glad it happened so that tactics such as bodyline against the spirit of the game could be banned for future generations.
No wonder they were bowling at the batsmen, with the appalling acting in this series it was a toss up what was more wooden the stumps or the actors! Also in the interest of accuracy as this was not a test match it should read MCC v Australian XI . In those days they only played as England in Test Matches
@pix042 thats why i dont rate him i rate botham, sunil, richards higher because they were playing against fast bowlers like holding garner willis. bradman got huge total because he played bowlers who had to bowl within the sprit of the game (meat fodder) not with the rules of the game huge difference.
@xwingclass Bradman was a bigot & a coward. He actively campaigned against the Catholic players in the team ( Fleetwood-Smith, Tiger O'Reilly stc) and in WW2 was 'unfit' for duty when many a man served even if in the role of physical instructor.
Jardine was right about him, he had a yellow streak a mile wide.
@theindivish in case you havent realised, Larwood could bowl almost every at the speed of at least 90-100 mph. If a player to hit that, they would demolish the bowlers of the modern era.
@MrBluebeanzZ oh yeah..in that era..90 to 100 mph...wtf....what was the tech captured or was it typically a white word to word thing !!bullfucking shit... and by the every other bowler in this world is 90 mph
The Aussies aren't famous for whinging. I'd say they're the best losers and worst winners in sport. But crikey, they cried like girls about this, a few bouncers.
ha ha ha ha english... only the can win by cheating.. lols do we ever here any of the england plyer from tht time... noo..... lolsss Bradman all the way... am indian but when its come to Ashes auss all the way... wish them good luck for coming test 25ht
@sexysun1 What rubbish are you on about, a part from the fact it wasn't cheating when the Bodyline series happened and when have England cheated, even if YOU count this. Oh yes, no ones ever heard of, Sir Len Hutton, Wally Hammond, Harold Larwood, Sir Jack Hobbs and before any of them WG Grace, I take it you don't know much about cricket.
I remem seeing this as a teleserial some 10 yrs ago...tat was at peak of my cricket madness,,,all this is offcourse true..n marks the Eng vs Aus rivalry main points!
Anyone that disprespects Don Bradman or the Australian cricket team of this era should be ashamed of themselves. If you are going to make comments on you tube, how about you think about it before you say anything. You guys who make shit comments are a waste of space on this planet.
@wggraceful Each to their own. It wasn't a film as such, it was what is called in Australia a mini TV-series and was made for televsion. I dont recall it being released to the cinema? It was more about showing how Jardine planned to stop Don Bradman scoring too many runs and what the Bodyline tactic as actually about.
@PilotAce74 I can never get past the historical and cricketing inaccuracies. You're right, it was a stupid comment, but the bowling and batting is rubbish - why couldn't they have used real cricketers?
@wggraceful LOL. Because the world's best cricketers can't act? And don't look like the actual characters that they are supposed to portray hence hiring actors with similar looks? Maybe I guess! :)
@PilotAce74 this mini series was hated by larwood and his family, as in it he was portrayed as inferior and malleable. Bodyline survivor bob wyatt claimed most of the facts were wrong and it was trash from beginning to end. John arlott calls it unconvincing corn. it is also too heavily slanted toward the Australian point of view.
@wsor1895 That's very true. And I remember reading somewhere that Larwood (or Jardine, more probably) didn't utilise the 'bodyline' field to tail-end batsmen anyway - it was only for the likes of Woodfull, Bradman and McCabe.
Snow bowled deliberately to hurt Aussie batsmen (remember Terry Jenner?) in the 70/71 series. Thommo and Lillee launched a bumper assault in 1974/75.
Holding and co., with the blessings of Lloyd, went for Indian blood in Sabina Park in 1976.
My point is that cricket is a tough game and things like these happen sometime. Lets just get on with it and stop complaining like wussies. Kudos to Jardine for a master-stroke!
what nonsense - i remember watching this 25 years ago and it was rubbish then. Of course, it was ok when the Aussies had Lillee and Thompson to bowl at the batsman.
LOL that's funny they don't have players like Shahid Afridi or Yuvraj Singh to beat the hell out of balers like him :D whose balling short pitch balls, and if not so at least this batsman got a bat to play with :D.
@coolioto They're actors pretending to be cricketers. Most of them had only limited cricketing experience and had to be coached re: bowling actions and batting strokes. In reality there are only a handful of cricket scenes in this entire series anyway.
Heard about the drama but never seen it before. They could do with some more expansive shots of the cricket, though I imagine budget had a lot to do with it.
Ok bodyline WAS very unsportsman like infact the England players realized this but they had to do what they're higher class captain said. Bottom line it was wrong but i can't deny i' m impressed by Jardine for finding the loophole that let him do it.
No, not at all.....but verbal barbs are nothing compared to a little red missile coming at your head at 100mph, especially when the bowlers sole aim is to physically harm the batsman.
it wasn't the short pitched bowling that was the problem it was the leg-side field that didn't allow batsmen to play a bouncer like they normally would. Tactically it was a masterstroke but not in the spirit of the game. BTW since when was the last time someone was taken to hospital because they were 'sledged'??
@humdrummer And they won 4-1. Leg-theory was a legitimate tactic, if the convicts had fast bowlers they would have done the same, as the West Indies tried and fialed on the slower English pitches in '34.
@DoctorScrumpy The Australians had every chance to employ bodyline tactics against England in that series, but they cared more about the sport than winning at any costs. Why did the governing body ban the tactic not long after this series. And not all us Aussies are descended from convicts. My heritage is Welsh and Scottish and bloody thankful I am there's not a drop of Pommy blood in my veins
at the time they came up with a way of getting good batsmen out that was within the rules, jardine was a genius, when will you aussies stop whinging, its like me saying McGraths not allowed to bowl at the stumpscus he'll get people out.
As a pom, i must say that it was you aussies who bowl underarm not us brits. Or is it because it was against NZ. Three cheers for Rodney Marsh for expressing disapproval for that disgrace. Interestingly, the umpires could have stopped bodyline from the start, under intimidatory bowling law (which existed at the time). Because they allowed it here, they had to allow it for the whole series.
@slashx16 yeah. exactly the english always have some problem with other people who are better then them. nowadays Pakistan is playing against england it's pretty crappy how the british media treats em
shaheryarify 1 month ago
To show haow poor these desperate tactic was back then ( different these days with the amazing protection Larwood ( one of the great bowlers) fell out with Jardine ended his years in australia ended up mates with Bradman
51delli 1 month ago
To those people whinging that he shouldve used his bat. Please understand that no one had ever batted against this type of bowling. How were they meant to change their batting in the middle of a game? Also, even with bodyline, Bradman came back a while later and tonked the poms all over again. Greatest batter in all time history, there will never EVER be another one.
RockinghamRams 2 months ago
@DoctorScrumpy harsh old words... all i'm saying is that leg theory makes games boring and is unfair, i'm just glad it was flagged up by this series in particular. But then agan I may be wrong I suppose...
TheIvanBrown 2 months ago
The weather keeps changing.
JasonRadley 2 months ago
If anyone posts the full series of this I'd love to see it!
TimSurrey 2 months ago
The 'Bradman' wicket is not out. Pitched outside the line and was missing off stump. I remember watching this whole series with a another cricket tragic friend and picking out all the cricketing anomalies haha.
Toddly85 4 months ago
@Toddly85 Until 1935 the lbw law did indeed require the ball to pitch in line with rhe stumps but I think you meant it his pads outside off.
JasonRadley 2 months ago
just an example of what you can expect from the cowardly ENGLISH or BRITISH or watever
shaheryarify 4 months ago
@shaheryarify
England. Actually technically it's the England And Wales Cricket team ;)
m00nshine2004 3 months ago
@shaheryarify Speaking of cowardly, how about the time the Aussies bowled underarm so a New Zealand batsman couldn't score a six on the last ball of the game?
slashx16 1 month ago
This series makes you embarrassed to be english, pathetic cheating tactics and an unforgivable class system running through the team,
mikeylord1875 7 months ago
@mikeylord1875 4-1, 4-1, 4-1.
JasonRadley 2 months ago
@mikeylord1875 Fuck you cunt
DoctorScrumpy 2 months ago
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FlashHarry75 7 months ago
Any chance of anyone uploading the whole series. I'd love to watch it!
TricycleTim 7 months ago
As an Englishman, I do believe this was a disgraceful tactic to be employed against such a good Aussie team. On the other hand, I'm glad it happened so that tactics such as bodyline against the spirit of the game could be banned for future generations.
TheIvanBrown 9 months ago
@TheIvanBrown As a n Englishman I would suggest you get the fuck out of our wonderful nation & go live in the convict colonies.
Leg-theory was a viable tactic and had long been used by bowlers against batsman.
DoctorScrumpy 2 months ago
No wonder they were bowling at the batsmen, with the appalling acting in this series it was a toss up what was more wooden the stumps or the actors! Also in the interest of accuracy as this was not a test match it should read MCC v Australian XI . In those days they only played as England in Test Matches
NPA1001 1 year ago
Tap 4 repeatedly for DRAMA
jhfh3112 1 year ago
Er, What's with the celebrating? They didn't do that back in those days.
TheReadingStudent 1 year ago
that silly cunt bradman watching. he would hate to think there was ANYTHING in the wicket for the bowlers!
pix042 1 year ago
@pix042 thats why i dont rate him i rate botham, sunil, richards higher because they were playing against fast bowlers like holding garner willis. bradman got huge total because he played bowlers who had to bowl within the sprit of the game (meat fodder) not with the rules of the game huge difference.
xwingclass 8 months ago
@xwingclass Bradman was a bigot & a coward. He actively campaigned against the Catholic players in the team ( Fleetwood-Smith, Tiger O'Reilly stc) and in WW2 was 'unfit' for duty when many a man served even if in the role of physical instructor.
Jardine was right about him, he had a yellow streak a mile wide.
DoctorScrumpy 7 months ago
@DoctorScrumpy agree
xwingclass 6 months ago
@DoctorScrumpy and Jardine wasn't that far behind regarding cowardice if not he was on par, Cowardice was exactly what bodyline was.
irishgodfatherchris 6 months ago
@irishgodfatherchris Cowardice is planting bombs to kill women & kids, something you irish vermin are good at
DoctorScrumpy 2 months ago
@DoctorScrumpy Easy to throw around accusations of bias. Next you'll be telling us he was racist and was egocentric.
JasonRadley 2 months ago
get the bastards out!
pix042 1 year ago
LOL....imagine what sachin would do to these loosers.. if the don played in this era.. his average would have been less than 40....:)
theindivish 1 year ago
@theindivish in case you havent realised, Larwood could bowl almost every at the speed of at least 90-100 mph. If a player to hit that, they would demolish the bowlers of the modern era.
MrBluebeanzZ 1 year ago
@MrBluebeanzZ oh yeah..in that era..90 to 100 mph...wtf....what was the tech captured or was it typically a white word to word thing !!bullfucking shit... and by the every other bowler in this world is 90 mph
theindivish 1 year ago
A rank longhop on leg stump that he missed. "Bastards!"
Kiss goodbye to the Ashes in your backyard again girls.
ludocrat 1 year ago
@ludocrat Arrr you were saying? Good luck in Melbourne you Pom barstead.
Muff0 1 year ago
@Muff0
Figures. This is bloody england we're talking about.
ludocrat 1 year ago
@ludocrat LOL, bragging rights are yours buddy :).
Muff0 1 year ago
@Muff0
Until we meet again... :)
ludocrat 1 year ago
The Aussies aren't famous for whinging. I'd say they're the best losers and worst winners in sport. But crikey, they cried like girls about this, a few bouncers.
mcs1hr 1 year ago 2
@mcs1hr LOL, yeah but you gotta remember this is in the days before helmets, blokes could of been killed.
Muff0 1 year ago
should be Sir Douglas Jardine and Sir Harold Larwood!!!
MrPetercriss1971 1 year ago
ha ha ha ha english... only the can win by cheating.. lols do we ever here any of the england plyer from tht time... noo..... lolsss Bradman all the way... am indian but when its come to Ashes auss all the way... wish them good luck for coming test 25ht
sexysun1 1 year ago
@sexysun1 What rubbish are you on about, a part from the fact it wasn't cheating when the Bodyline series happened and when have England cheated, even if YOU count this. Oh yes, no ones ever heard of, Sir Len Hutton, Wally Hammond, Harold Larwood, Sir Jack Hobbs and before any of them WG Grace, I take it you don't know much about cricket.
REVRAC74 10 months ago
I remem seeing this as a teleserial some 10 yrs ago...tat was at peak of my cricket madness,,,all this is offcourse true..n marks the Eng vs Aus rivalry main points!
imemadhu 1 year ago
Anyone that disprespects Don Bradman or the Australian cricket team of this era should be ashamed of themselves. If you are going to make comments on you tube, how about you think about it before you say anything. You guys who make shit comments are a waste of space on this planet.
PilotAce74 1 year ago
use your bat you whinging convict
wggraceful 1 year ago
@wggraceful Use your brain and make comments that might be useful.
PilotAce74 1 year ago
@PilotAce74 Sorry but this is an awful film - it deserves stupid comments.
wggraceful 1 year ago
@wggraceful Each to their own. It wasn't a film as such, it was what is called in Australia a mini TV-series and was made for televsion. I dont recall it being released to the cinema? It was more about showing how Jardine planned to stop Don Bradman scoring too many runs and what the Bodyline tactic as actually about.
PilotAce74 1 year ago
@PilotAce74 I can never get past the historical and cricketing inaccuracies. You're right, it was a stupid comment, but the bowling and batting is rubbish - why couldn't they have used real cricketers?
wggraceful 1 year ago
@wggraceful LOL. Because the world's best cricketers can't act? And don't look like the actual characters that they are supposed to portray hence hiring actors with similar looks? Maybe I guess! :)
PilotAce74 1 year ago
@PilotAce74 this mini series was hated by larwood and his family, as in it he was portrayed as inferior and malleable. Bodyline survivor bob wyatt claimed most of the facts were wrong and it was trash from beginning to end. John arlott calls it unconvincing corn. it is also too heavily slanted toward the Australian point of view.
wggraceful 1 year ago
@wggraceful Yeah, I agree with that. :)
PilotAce74 1 year ago
Bradman was yelluh!
JasonRadley 1 year ago
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PilotAce74 1 year ago
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PilotAce74 1 year ago
Those two lbws did look pretty damn plumb!
Bernie8330 1 year ago
It would be great if someone could post the whole movie. I remember watching it as a kid, and loving it.
TricycleTim 1 year ago
The Baggies got their own back some years later with a bird called Lillian Thompson.
chazsmateII 1 year ago
@wsor1895 That's very true. And I remember reading somewhere that Larwood (or Jardine, more probably) didn't utilise the 'bodyline' field to tail-end batsmen anyway - it was only for the likes of Woodfull, Bradman and McCabe.
libertyordeaf 1 year ago
@edosan83 Be sure to include lots of indignant Kiwi accents!
libertyordeaf 1 year ago
@libertyordeaf That's just not crucket!
edosan1983 1 year ago
They should had Andrew Symonds then...hit him anywhere but he would have made ENg pay...ha ha ha ah
peacemaker185 2 years ago
Stop whinging about things like these.
Snow bowled deliberately to hurt Aussie batsmen (remember Terry Jenner?) in the 70/71 series. Thommo and Lillee launched a bumper assault in 1974/75.
Holding and co., with the blessings of Lloyd, went for Indian blood in Sabina Park in 1976.
My point is that cricket is a tough game and things like these happen sometime. Lets just get on with it and stop complaining like wussies. Kudos to Jardine for a master-stroke!
Imrankniazi 2 years ago
agree with you. A fine tactic, and a huge overreaction. this tv show is hilarious
1137moiz 2 years ago
saale jaan boojh ke karte hai aisa
itsmeitsami 2 years ago
Hilarious anti-pom propaganda.
daleykid 2 years ago 2
what nonsense - i remember watching this 25 years ago and it was rubbish then. Of course, it was ok when the Aussies had Lillee and Thompson to bowl at the batsman.
markbailey1970 2 years ago
Is that a really really bad matt painting at the start, or have they cut from a shot of a painting at the end of the previous scene?!
danbo1984 2 years ago
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66soccerbros99 2 years ago
Pussies. Just take a 2 guard and start going for cow corner
HitMeQuick 2 years ago
LOL that's funny they don't have players like Shahid Afridi or Yuvraj Singh to beat the hell out of balers like him :D whose balling short pitch balls, and if not so at least this batsman got a bat to play with :D.
shetanful 2 years ago
best sports series made for tv ever!
charliebad 2 years ago
Hahah you wish mate
mattyo30 3 years ago
They are not very believable as cricketers and the umpire looks like a wino.
coolioto 3 years ago
@coolioto They're actors pretending to be cricketers. Most of them had only limited cricketing experience and had to be coached re: bowling actions and batting strokes. In reality there are only a handful of cricket scenes in this entire series anyway.
libertyordeaf 1 year ago
@libertyordeaf Your comment has no bearing on my statement and simply serves as a testament to your failed comprehension.
coolioto 1 year ago
@coolioto And your response is a testament to your lack of civility, probably the result of a deficient upbringing.
libertyordeaf 1 year ago
@libertyordeaf You are correct but so am I.
coolioto 1 year ago
Heard about the drama but never seen it before. They could do with some more expansive shots of the cricket, though I imagine budget had a lot to do with it.
headofwords 3 years ago
Ok bodyline WAS very unsportsman like infact the England players realized this but they had to do what they're higher class captain said. Bottom line it was wrong but i can't deny i' m impressed by Jardine for finding the loophole that let him do it.
pete667 3 years ago
the bodyline plays were being used when oldfield was hit. i have been researching the bodyline series for a school project.
FishyMcFly 3 years ago
hey what is bodyline and is this real because to me it looks to me
like a movie
babarnaikjr 3 years ago
the bodyline was a cricket test match series that happened when the 1930's english cricket team came to australia for the ashes
FishyMcFly 3 years ago
No, not at all.....but verbal barbs are nothing compared to a little red missile coming at your head at 100mph, especially when the bowlers sole aim is to physically harm the batsman.
bigaussie68 3 years ago
it wasn't the short pitched bowling that was the problem it was the leg-side field that didn't allow batsmen to play a bouncer like they normally would. Tactically it was a masterstroke but not in the spirit of the game. BTW since when was the last time someone was taken to hospital because they were 'sledged'??
bigaussie68 3 years ago
plus someone got a fractured SKULL!
FishyMcFly 3 years ago
I don't think Bodyline tactics were being used when Bert Oldfield got a cricket ball to the head.
pete667 3 years ago
we all know that this argument between england and australia about bodyline will go on forever.
england you guys can think what you like. but it was still unsportsman like to play like that. but hey that was is the past.
AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI.
FishyMcFly 3 years ago
Get over yourselves Oz - so self-pitying for self-appointed supposed larrikins up for a laugh etc. at all times.
We love you Jardine we do we love you Jardine we do we love you Jardine we do oh Douglas we love you!!!!!
Roll on 2009 and KP engineering us regaining the little urn - my prediction is 2-1 again as in 2005.
5-0 a distant memory.
sussexbysea 3 years ago
Convicts 1 The Motherland 4.
Like in the 2008 Olympics we pretty much cleaned up.
sussexbysea 3 years ago
You have to be a member of the Barmy Army. If you are, keep up the good work.
cavalier080854 3 years ago
where did u get this stuff from.. ive scanned all over the net and cant fin dthe series except for one episode in dailymotion.. any ideas?
esucil 3 years ago
You can get the 3 disk DVD set from e-bay, but beware, it's only available in region 4 PAL. It will play on your computer or multi-region DVD player.
cavalier080854 3 years ago
@sussexbysea Australia = Skill. England = Let's act like animals.
michaelguo8 10 months ago
@sussexbysea to paraphrase Bill Woodful there were two sides out there but only one was playing cricket
humdrummer 7 months ago
@humdrummer And they won 4-1. Leg-theory was a legitimate tactic, if the convicts had fast bowlers they would have done the same, as the West Indies tried and fialed on the slower English pitches in '34.
DoctorScrumpy 7 months ago
@DoctorScrumpy The Australians had every chance to employ bodyline tactics against England in that series, but they cared more about the sport than winning at any costs. Why did the governing body ban the tactic not long after this series. And not all us Aussies are descended from convicts. My heritage is Welsh and Scottish and bloody thankful I am there's not a drop of Pommy blood in my veins
humdrummer 7 months ago
@humdrummer Well there's lots of Pommie blood in the Scots and Welsh seeing that they shared the island for the last 8000 years.
JasonRadley 2 months ago
@DoctorScrumpy 1933.
JasonRadley 2 months ago
@humdrummer yes one was play cricket the other team was whinging and running away lol
Stephend83 3 months ago
@humdrummer The other one was winning 4-1.
JasonRadley 2 months ago
if that was voce with the the glasses, i thought he was left handed?
ItsTodka 3 years ago
Bill Voce was left handed and took 15 wickets in 4 matches. What can i say, continuity and historical accuracy are not "Bodyline" strong points.
cavalier080854 3 years ago
@cavalier080854
I think that the bespectacled bowler was Bill Bowes and not Bill Voce. Bill Bowes was right handed and played in the Melbourne test,
ranban282 1 year ago
@ItsTodka No, it was Bill Bowes.
JasonRadley 1 year ago
@ItsTodka That is not Voce but Bill Bowes.
shaun19475 1 year ago
@ItsTodka - It's Bill Bowes - only played in the 2nd test of the series.
theeviltwaz 8 months ago
this is kind of propoganda but the poms and jardine crossed a line that should never be crossed with bodyline
heinzes9100 3 years ago
at the time they came up with a way of getting good batsmen out that was within the rules, jardine was a genius, when will you aussies stop whinging, its like me saying McGraths not allowed to bowl at the stumpscus he'll get people out.
gingedaywalker101 3 years ago
yes it was in the rules, but it still wasnt right
heinzes9100 3 years ago
Yes but McGrath's aiming at the stumps, not the bloody batsman ya dickhead.
HotelBushranger 3 years ago
shut up you idiotic shit. that's unsportmanship.
I would've abandoned the match. Immideatly. After one ball. Or started fighting the english players.
guy0307 3 years ago
First "Lagaan" and now this...is there no end to English cricket's perfidy?
Poor little Aussies (weeps)
jagdpanther1944 4 years ago 2
As a pom, i must say that it was you aussies who bowl underarm not us brits. Or is it because it was against NZ. Three cheers for Rodney Marsh for expressing disapproval for that disgrace. Interestingly, the umpires could have stopped bodyline from the start, under intimidatory bowling law (which existed at the time). Because they allowed it here, they had to allow it for the whole series.
cavalier080854 4 years ago