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 ...

As the cricketing world prepares for The Ashes series between England and Australia, two of the sport's oldest rivals, it is time to revisit one of the darkest, unsportsmanlike and important periods ...

The National Film and Sound Archive has released the newly digitised footage 90 years on from the infamous Test series The footage shows the controversial bodyline tactic, used by the English to try ...

Australia’s star wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield was left with a fractured skull by English fast-bowler Harold Larwood in the hostile 1932-33 bodyline Test. Furious boos and hooting jeered the English team ...

Nine decades ago this week, Australia’s under-fire cricket board rowed back on complaints against the tourists’ brutal bowling In this era of cricketing glut, some matches pound through the sausage ...

England's 1932-33 Ashes tour of Australia, known as the 'Bodyline' series, began dramatically with Harold Larwood's aggressive bowling targeting Aussie batters. Australia still scored 360, led by Stan ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It was perhaps the most sickening moment of a despised Test series. Batting at the Adelaide Oval, the small and wiry veteran ...

Few sporting events have caused such an international storm as the 1932-33 Ashes series which, at its nadir, not only threatened the tour itself but also political relations between the United Kingdom ...

Remember the bodyline series from 1932-33. Yes, it has been a long, long time since that series was played but then that was a monumental series between England and Australia, where the England fast ...

Tensions may be mounting between England and Australia with the Ashes underway - but they would have to go a long way to match the events of the 1932-33 series. Back then, England's tactic of bowling ...

Australia’s star wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield was left with a fractured skull by English fast-bowler Harold Larwood in the hostile 1932-33 bodyline Test. “Oldfield hit Larwood for four, and the bowler ...

Young folk may challenge the claim, but the 1932-33 series between Australia and England remains the most sensational Test series of them all. People were more easily shocked in those days. Cricket ...