ABC Bodyline Its Just Not Cricket (Part 1/6)

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• australia
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• bradman
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[raysteer]

Logical and effective, or dangerous and ugly, take your pick. I just feel that there was something simply wrong about the idea. One thing's for certain those batsman had guts facing Larwood at all with that lack of protection.

[windigo44]

Sorry, I meant to say "with several fielders between MID-ON & fine leg."

When they flipped from regular 3-4 slips + gully, etc., to bodyline field it was like a mass migration from one side to the other.

It must've gotten into a batsman's mind when the Poms did this.

[windigo44]

In response to some ridiculous comments here about "hooking 6s out of the stadium" off bodyline I would like to see you do it ball-after-ball & over-after-over off 90 mph chin music WITHOUT A HELMET & with several fielders between mid-off & fine leg.

Boy, I'd like to see that.

Actually, Stan McCabe did exactly that in the Sydney Test making 187 not out. No one else pasted the Poms like that in 1932-33, though. Bodyline worked REALLY well, no doubt. Bradman, especially, wasn't a fan of it.

[windigo44]

@jambenes Excuses? Let's stay on bodyline - McGrath, etc., are diff matters.

You really think bodyline is sporting? Wasn't illegal at all at the time, but sporting?

If so, then you MUST excuse Greg Chappell for the underarm. I don't, though. Chappell was the poorest of sports for doing it - no excuse at all. It was legal, yes, but dirty. Unforgivable, actually.

Bodyline = exciting, effective, legal (at the time), but hardly "cricket" in the literal & metaphorical sense of the term.

[windigo44]

@jambenes Oi! I'm Aussie & have no problems calling the Poms the best test team in the world right now - easily, even just after getting pasted by the Paks (an anomaly, I think, but we'll see).

Larwood by far the best quick of the day. He said, "I only ever bowled really fast once, & that was in Australia in 1932-33." Even bowling to a conventional field, he was just too much to handle. "I'm really sorry, Bertie," he said after cracking Oldfield's skull. "My fault, Harold," replied Oldfield.

[jambenes]

@windigo44 Face it. With the exception of the most recent series (3-1 to England by the way), Aussies often come up with excuses for losing an ashes series. Bodyline, Mcgrath's injury in '05 and Cardiff in '09 to name but 3 examples. We hardly ever hear congratulations or well Done England do we? 

[windigo44]

@DAJAZDJ1 Wow, you must be really, really good. Like, the best batsman ever.

So, did you ever play test cricket? I'm guessing no - coz you're too good, right?

I guess that's why we've never heard of you.

[windigo44]

@jambenes Rubbish comment, mate. Back it up with proof. Here, at least half the commentary is by Poms & in their own words. Right?

Good documentary on the most dramatic series in cricket history. In fact, the drama never abated till Larwood broke a foot bone in the final test.

Poms thought fast leg theory (bodyline) the only way to subdue Bradman. Within the rules, yes, but hardly sporting since batsmen's only options were to duck, get hit on the body, or sky catches to a packed leg field.

[DAJAZDJ1]

@doomcaster76 troll?

[doomcaster76]

@DAJAZDJ1 they covered around the batsmen to catch the ball should they hook it, are you a troll?