Do you think 1932/1933 Ashes set the tone for some serious test cricket?

[The Hillside]

You know why I am saying that? Ofcourse coz of the 'bodyline' tactics adopted by England in the series.

 

[fredfertang]

Test cricket was a serious business long before Douglas Jardine came along

 

[howitzer]

Test cricket was a serious business long before Douglas Jardine came along

Yeah it became serious business in the 1880s

 

[Smudge]

You know why I am saying that? Ofcourse coz of the 'bodyline' tactics adopted by England in the series.

There were Bodyline tactics?

 

[Nintendo]

Didn't another team use bodyline before england did in that ashes anyway? Think it was the windies.

 

[Line and Length]

Manny Martindale and Learie Constantine used 'bodyine' against England in 1933. The tactic was originally called 'leg-theory'.

Two English left-arm bowlers, George Hirst in 1903–04 and Frank Foster in 1911–12, bowled leg theory to packed leg side fields in Test matches in Australia. Warwick Armstrong also used it regularly for Australia. In the years immediately before the First World War, several bowlers used leg theory in English county cricket.

 

[mr_mister]

Interesting if that Larwood bowled more of a Frank Foster pace there might not have been as much drama. Fast leg theory was just too much

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

The real problem was that Larwood was too bloody fast. No one really excepted him to sustain that speed for all the series. Think that English team was the best cricket team ever fielded before Bradman’s Invincibles.