Bodyline

[Dogwatcher]

Vic Richardson claims we had the bowlers out there (not necessarily all in the test team at the time) to return the favour but Woodfull as stated above didn't want to respond with tactics in kind. Think I read that in article/book by Ian Chappell.

But who AMB?

There was Wall, who was already in the line-up, and much media talk about Eddie Gilbert.
But who else?
Can anyone who knows their history shed some light on Lisle Nagel, who played one test in the series?

[mal]

Mal - read the first sentence of your post and that will tell you why.

Im not denying that Bodyline was a carefully, expertly executed game plan
Done legitimately within the laws of the day

However my posey is yes it blunted the Don
But why was it used on the other players ?

[Dogwatcher]

Match winning tactic

Says it all.

[Adelaide Hawk]

Mal - read the first sentence of your post and that will tell you why.

Im not denying that Bodyline was a carefully, expertly executed game plan
Done legitimately within the laws of the day

However my posey is yes it blunted the Don
But why was it used on the other players ?

I may be able to help with this. Apparently after they dismissed Bradman in one innings, Gubby Allen questioned Jardine as to why they kept bowling Bodyline. Jardine's response was something like, "Mr Bradman is still watching". I guess the plan was to get into Bradman's mind.

Having said that, there were many periods where the tactic wasn't deployed, such as the 1st Innings in the Brisbane Test, the two openers Woodfull and Richardson put on 133 and for the greater part no Bodyline field was used. Once again, I think Jardine's plan was to lull Bradman into a false sense of security after the events of the Adelaide Test, and attempts to have Jardine cease using the tactic.

And, as I said previously, no bodyline field was in place when Woodfull and Oldfield wer struck in Adelaide.

[spell_check]

Match winning tactic
But unsporting in my opinion
The plan was hatched, specificly for The Don
The Dons stats in that series
0
103*
8
66
76
24
48
71
Average of 56.6

On reading those stats it looks like Shane Watsons stats thesedays

More like Katich looking at those scores - no big hundreds, and plenty of starts.