Bodyline

Bodyline Bodyline The Bodyline series was and still is a big part of Australian life, taking place during a savage depression when money for Test tickets was incredibly hard to come by. There were 'suggestions' from the MCC (before the tour was finalised) that the tour should be cut back to 3 Test matches after 2 profit loosing home Test series against the West Indies (their first to Australia) and South Africa. The Australian Government of the time knew that if the Test series were shortened it would mean a great loss in revenue and publicity, both required by a starving nation. The reason for Bodyline was when Bradman was caught up in controversy during the final test at the Oval in 1930 and according to legend; Jardine decided Bodyline was the weapon to counteract Bradman's superiority on their next tour to Australia in 1932. This came about during a wet days play when Bradman and Jackson were in total control. The rain came and no one thought more play was possible. However the umpires thought otherwise and declared that 1 over was possible at 6:25pm that day. The Australian's batsmen furious with this decision, stormed out to the middle to take up bodyline, australian, test, bradman, out, between, jardine, during, series, play, larwood, england, day, australia, wicket, wet, two, tour, thought, leg, knew, game, first, cricket, batsman, , words, woodfull, trying, time, telegram, struck, relations, put, possible, played, people, over, oval, one, once, next, newspapers, main, later, head, great, controversy, come, came, bowler