It was the prospect of bowling at this line-up that caused England's 1932 – 33 captain Douglas Jardine to adopt the tactic of fast leg theory, also known as Bodyline.

In 2003 he became the first author to win the Cricket Society's Book of the Year award three times, and was also a finalist in the William Hill Sports Book awards for his Bodyline Autopsy.

He also clashed, later on, with the umpire Frank Tarrant, initially due to suspicion over the number of lbw decisions given against the M. C. C., but also because Tarrant had warned him against using Bodyline and was employed by Indian princes.

He also displayed great physical courage, such as when he was struck by a ball hard enough to draw blood on the Bodyline tour, but refused to show pain before reaching the dressing room.

" He also argues that Bodyline, which was legal at the time, was a necessary step to overcome the unfair advantage which batsmen of the time enjoyed.

He also remained a keen observer of the international game, and was unimpressed by Australian protests against Bodyline, saying that their players should stick to playing with tennis balls if they could not learn how to play it.

He was also known for his involvement in several cricket diplomacy incidents in his career, accused of leaking the infamous verbal exchange between Australian captain Bill Woodfull and English manager Plum Warner during the acrimonious Bodyline series, and later of causing sectarian tension within the team by leading a group of players of Irish Catholic descent in undermining the leadership of the Protestant Don Bradman.

The Bodyline season also marked the beginning of Fingleton's opening combination with Bill Brown, who made his New South Wales debut in the same season.

He also questioned what he perceived to be Woodfull's coldness towards him since the Bodyline series and decried unnamed " fellow pressmen, naturally jealous ".

She is a brand ambassador and spokeswoman to slimming service Marie France Bodyline, prominently appearing on billboards and print ads, and is also known to be a fan of English football club Chelsea.

Larwood also had a smooth, rhythmic run-up and a classical side-on action, something for which Lindwall became famous .< Ref name =" az "/> The match was also remembered for Stan McCabe's much-celebrated 187 not out, aggressively resisting the Bodyline tactics as Australia fell to a heavy ten wicket defeat.

Wheeler also wrote the script for the Australian mini-series Bodyline ( 1984 ).

A controversial set of tactics, known as Bodyline, was specifically devised by the England team to curb his scoring.

Despite his absence, England employed what were already becoming known as the Bodyline tactics against the Australian batsmen and won an ill-tempered match.

Harold Larwood MBE ( 14 November 190422 July 1995 ) was an English cricket player, an extremely accurate fast bowler best known for his key role as the implementer of fast leg theory in the infamous Bodyline Ashes Test series of 1932 – 33.

Jardine is best known for captaining the English team during the 1932 – 33 Ashes tour of Australia, in which his team employed Bodyline tactics against Donald Bradman and other opposing Australian batsmen.

A controversial figure among cricketers, Jardine was well known for his dislike of Australian players and crowds and was unpopular in Australia, particularly for his manner and especially after the Bodyline tour.

This changed in the match against an Australian XI, from which Jardine rested himself, where the bowlers first used the tactics that came to be known as Bodyline.

Right up to his death in 1984, in Lenton, Nottingham, at the age of 74, Voce was reluctant to discuss the Bodyline series, though it is known that he privately considered Bodyline to be wrong.

Gary Sweet ( born 22 May 1957 in Melbourne ) is an Australian film and television actor known for his roles in Alexandra's Project ( 2003 ), Police Rescue, Cody, Big Sky, The Battlers, Bodyline and Stingers.

The most notable match played in Ballarat was during the 1932-33 England tour of Australia known as the Bodyline series on 22 January 1933.

Richardson was Australian vice-captain for the 1932 / 33 English tour of Australia, known as the Bodyline series, for England's tactics of bowling fast short-pitched deliveries at the batsman's bodies.

He was never dropped from the Australian Test team in his career and was known for his footwork, mastery of fast bowling and the hook shot against the Bodyline strategy.

His major works include My Dear Victorious Stod ( a biography of A. E. Stoddart ), a lavishly illustrated history of England versus Australia, Silence of the Heart ( on cricket's suicides, an expansion of his earlier book ' By His Own Hand ), The Fast Men, The Slow Men ( about fast bowlers and spinners ), Pageant of Cricket ( the only cricket book to have as many as 2000 pictures ), Caught England, Bowled Australia ( autobiography ), The Trailblazers ( the first English tour of Australia, in 1861-62 ), The Archie Jackson Story ( biography ) and Bodyline Autopsy.

In 1930 and the following years, Carr was instrumental in developing the Bodyline bowling tactic together with future England captain Douglas Jardine and the two Nottinghamshire fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce.

In the notorious third Test at Adelaide, the English Bodyline tactic of bowling fast balls directed at the Australian batsmen's bodies reached its most dramatic moment when fast bowler Harold Larwood hit Oldfield in the head, fracturing his skull ( although this was from a top edge off a traditional non-Bodyline ball and Oldfield admitted it was his fault ).

Frustrated by a slow pitch which he believed was intended to neutralise his fast bowlers, Grant had ordered Constantine to bowl Bodyline against Yorkshire, and decided to repeat the tactics during the second Test.

The 1 – 0 loss was Australia's first series defeat since the notorious Bodyline series twenty years earlier that had motivated Lindwall to take up fast bowling.

Jardine later conceived the strategy of Bodyline, where fast bowlers bowled at the batsmen's leg stump, frequently pitching the ball short and hitting him.

However, critics questioned his ability against fast bowling, and the hostile short-pitched English bowling in the Bodyline series of 1932 – 33 was a contributing factor in his early retirement from cricket a year and a half later.

McCabe struck three consecutive fours from Allen's conventional fast bowling, prompting Jardine to call for Bodyline field placings.

Jardine insisted that the tactic was legitimate and called it " leg theory " but it was widely disparaged by its opponents, who dubbed it " Bodyline " ( from " on the line of the body ").

Although England decisively won the Ashes 4 – 1, Bodyline caused such a furore in Australia that diplomats had to intervene to prevent serious harm to Anglo-Australian relations, and the MCC eventually changed the Laws of cricket to curtail the number of leg side fielders.

Fast leg theory, the deliberate and sustained bowling of bouncers aimed at the body, was a tactic used by England against Australia in 1932 / 33, dubbed the Bodyline series by the Australians.

Known as the Bodyline series, it became notorious for the controversial English tactic of bowling short on the line of leg stump, making the ball rise towards the batsman's body to create deflections that could be caught by leg-side fielders.

Test cricket remained the sport's highest level of standard throughout the 20th century but it had its problems, notably in the infamous " Bodyline Series " of 1932 – 33 when Douglas Jardine's England used so-called " leg theory " to try and neutralise the run-scoring brilliance of Australia's Don Bradman.

A Bodyline delivery was one where the cricket ball was pitched short so as to rise towards the body of the opposing batsman on the line of the leg stump, in the hope of creating legside deflections that could be caught by one of several fielders on the leg side.

" At this stage, he seems to have settled on leg theory, if not full Bodyline, as his main tactic.

He had clashed with more of his team by this stage: he had argued with Gubby Allen at least twice about that bowler's refusal to bowl Bodyline ( although he did bowl bouncers and fielded in the " leg trap ", the fielders who waited for catches close in on the leg side ); and the Nawab of Pataudi had refused to field in the " leg trap ", to which Jardine responded, " I see his highness is a conscientious objector ", and subsequently allowed Pataudi to play little part in the tour.

With alterations to the law in 1935, changing the leg before wicket law and preventing Bodyline bowling, Jardine became increasingly disillusioned with top-level cricket.

Although England did aim at the batsmen's body, they did not enforce the second half of the Bodyline structure, by not packing the leg side.

During the famous Bodyline series, Allen strongly disagreed with the controversial tactics of Douglas Jardine, the English captain, and refused to bowl leg theory ; he still took 21 wickets in the series.

In the following summer came the Bodyline series, when England toured under Douglas Jardine and targeted the upper bodies of the Australian batsmen with short-pitched bowling, using a close leg side cordon to catch balls fended away from the body.

During the previous winter, England had played Australia in the controversial Bodyline series in which the English bowlers were accused of bowling the ball on the line of leg stump.