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In 1932, England's cricket team, led by the haughty Douglas
Jardine, had the fastest bowler in the world: Harold Larwood.
Australia boasted the most prolific batsman the game had ever seen:
the young Don Bradman. He had to be stopped. The leg-side bouncer
onslaught inflicted by Larwood and Bill Voce, with a ring of
fieldsmen waiting for catches, caused an outrage that reverberated
to the back of the stands and into the highest levels of
government. Bodyline, as this infamous technique came to be known,
was repugnant to the majority of cricket-lovers. It was also
potentially lethal - one bowl fracturing the skull of Australian
wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield - and the technique was outlawed in
1934. After the death of Don Bradman in 2001, one of the most
controversial events in cricketing history - the Bodyline technique
- finally slid out of living memory. Over seventy years on, the
1932-33 Ashes series remains the most notorious in the history of
Test cricket between Australia and England. David Frith's gripping
narrative has been acclaimed as the definitive book on the whole
saga: superbly researched and replete with anecdotes, Bodyline
Autopsy is a masterly anatomy of one of the most remarkable
sporting scandals.
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