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Bodyline Autopsy: The Full Story of the Most Sensational Test Cricket Series: Australia V England 1932-33
David Frith
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Description for Bodyline Autopsy: The Full Story of the Most Sensational Test Cricket Series: Australia V England 1932-33
Paperback. The story of the most controversial Test series in cricket's history. Num Pages: 480 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: HBT; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 344. The Full Story of the Most Sensational Test Cricket Series: Australia V England 1932-33. 480 pages, b&w photographs. The story of the most controversial Test series in cricket's history. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HBT; WSJC. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight: 332.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Aurum Press Ltd
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854109316
SKU
V9781854109316
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99-50
About David Frith
Historian, archivist, interviewer and writer, David Frith founded Wisden Cricket Monthly in 1979 and ran it for seventeen years. He is also a former editor of The Cricketer. His many books include a bestselling pictorial history of Ashes Tests (the first 1000-picture cricket book); The Trailblazers, a reconstruction of the first English tour of Australia (1861-62) and the thrilling 1894-95 ... Read more
Reviews for Bodyline Autopsy: The Full Story of the Most Sensational Test Cricket Series: Australia V England 1932-33
'A brilliant book...it goes a long way to being the definitive tome on the subject. Outstandingly researched and extremely well written.'
David Llewellyn Independent 'In David Frith's Bodyline Autopsy, we relive the crisis of 1932-33 that almost split the Empire...the well-sketched heroes and villains stand out in Frith's history; who says cricket is for gentlemen?' The Times 'Frith's account ... Read more
David Llewellyn Independent 'In David Frith's Bodyline Autopsy, we relive the crisis of 1932-33 that almost split the Empire...the well-sketched heroes and villains stand out in Frith's history; who says cricket is for gentlemen?' The Times 'Frith's account ... Read more