Five great Ashes controversies

1932-33: Bodyline
Conceived as a plan to stop Australia run machine Don Bradman, the autocratic England captain Douglas Jardine`s use of `leg-theory` pace bowling from Harold Larwood and Bill Voce almost sparked a collapse in diplomatic relations between the two countries. During a bruising encounter at Adelaide, England tour manager Pelham Warner, ashamed of seeing his side aim at batsmen`s bodies, not their stumps, went into the home dressing room to apologise. But Australia captain Bill Woodfull told him: `There are two teams out there, one of them is trying to play cricket.` England won the five-match series 4-1 with Bradman, whose career Test average was 99.94, reduced to a more human but still impressive mark of 56.57. After World War II, Larwood settled in Sydney having been encouraged to move by Jack Fingleton, an Australia opening batsman during the Bodyline series who became a lifelong friend of the former Nottinghamshire quick.
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