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Chock · 12 October 2009, 08:35 AM

Actually, if you go all the way back to 1932-33 Ashes tour, you find that the England Cricket team indulged in some very 'Hunnish' behaviour...

That was of course the infamous 'Bodyline' tour, when Douglas Jardine came up with an evil plan to combat the legendary Don Bradman's 139 batting average, by having Bill Voce and Harold Larwood adopt the thoroughly caddish tactic of pitching short balls at high speed so they came right up at the batsman in the hope that he'd deflect it into the slips in panic as the ball whizzed toward his upper body.

I certainly wouldn't have a chap who did that sort of thing in my Gentleman's Club, as I'd consider him an absolute caddish bounder, by jove! It's a jolly poor show and a typical filthy Hun trick to actually think about games and play them with such thoroughly Hunnish things as tactics and intelligence. Legend has it that the Bodyline tactic was devised after watching and studying film footage which highlighted a weakness in Bradman's technique, and that's about as bally un-British and caddish as you can be! Next thing you know, we'll be training and practicing, it's an outrage! I shall be writing a strongly-worded letter to The Times if that ever happens.

Al

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Chock Scout Pilot Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The grim north of England Posts: 405	Actually, if you go all the way back to 1932-33 Ashes tour, you find that the England Cricket team indulged in some very 'Hunnish' behaviour... That was of course the infamous 'Bodyline' tour, when Douglas Jardine came up with an evil plan to combat the legendary Don Bradman's 139 batting average, by having Bill Voce and Harold Larwood adopt the thoroughly caddish tactic of pitching short balls at high speed so they came right up at the batsman in the hope that he'd deflect it into the slips in panic as the ball whizzed toward his upper body. I certainly wouldn't have a chap who did that sort of thing in my Gentleman's Club, as I'd consider him an absolute caddish bounder, by jove! It's a jolly poor show and a typical filthy Hun trick to actually think about games and play them with such thoroughly Hunnish things as tactics and intelligence. Legend has it that the Bodyline tactic was devised after watching and studying film footage which highlighted a weakness in Bradman's technique, and that's about as bally un-British and caddish as you can be! Next thing you know, we'll be training and practicing, it's an outrage! I shall be writing a strongly-worded letter to The Times if that ever happens. Al __________________ Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words? Ash: Yeah, basically. Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words? Ash: Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah. Last edited by Chock; 12 October 2009 at 06:56 PM.