Douglas Jardine: Cricket, England Cricket Team, English Cricket Team in Australia in 1932-33 Paperback

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Douglas Robert Jardine (23 October 1900 - 18 June 1958) was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933-34. A right-handed batsman, he played 22 Test matches for England, captaining the side in 15 of those matches, winning nine, losing one and drawing five. Jardine is best known for captaining the English team during the 1932-33 Ashes tour of Australia, in which his team employed Bodyline tactics against Donald Bradman and other opposing Australian batsmen. A Bodyline delivery was one where the cricket ball was pitched short so as to rise towards the body of the opposing batsman on the line of the leg stump, in the hope of creating legside deflections that could be caught by one of several fielders on the leg side.