Flying fruit pips are less menacing than the cork and leather cricket balls that Harold Larwood hurled at Australian batsmen ...
The Ashes is among the oldest and the most traditional rivalries in world cricket, but if there is something that truly added fuel to the fire, it would be the 'Bodyline' bowling by the England team ...
Former Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar has opined that he could have dismissed Sachin Tendulkar much earlier in the 2003 World Cup clash against India had he resorted to bodyline bowling in his ...
Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood fluff their lines and fail to induce any terror at the Gabba THE front page in the local Courier-Mail newspaper ...
Australia batter Steve Smith has been warned to expect Bodyline bowling from England's pace attack in the forthcoming Ashes. Former Australia opener Simon Katich has predicted England coach Brendon ...
Karachi: Former Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar has called for ‘Bodyline’ bowling to return to Test cricket and asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to remove restrictions on the number of ...
Bodyline, the ruthless and aggressive bowling tactic England used to beat the Australians on the tour of 1932-33, remains cricket’s darkest hour. It soured diplomatic and economic relations between ...
Above three lines can be said to be the origins of probably the most controversial term to have ever come out from the 22-yards of a cricket pitch - “Bodyline”. The line by Hugh Buggy was rephrased by ...
Remember the famous or rather infamous Bodyline series of 1932-33? The greatest English bowler of the day, Harold Larwood, bowled at a blistering estimated speed of over 90 miles per hour and totally ...
Cricket and politics collided with almost devastating consequences for Anglo-Australian relations during the 1932-33 Ashes series. England captain Douglas Jardine took his side into the lion's den and ...