The story needs coach outlet no repeating but I was interested in the genesis of Douglas Jardine's decision to use the tactic. Leg theory, bowling to a legside field, had been around since the turn of that century and was perfected in particular by the Derbyshire inswing bowler Fred Root. This, though, was a world away from what happened in Australia. Some say the idea came from watching Bradman in England on a previous tour, batting warily against pace and was agreed over a pre-tour dinner.I was always told he was a good cricketer. Somewhere I have some medals he won, for fielding and batting. They came from Warwickshire. He might have played for the county, but there was a very strong mutual antipathy between him and Bob Wyatt, the Warwickshire overlord he regarded as a snob and not someone, as he described it, who took brand handbags readily to a miner who batted rather than bowled fast. So other than his medals, I have no other record of his cricket.The winter after next, however, on his first visit to the Caribbean with England, he broke a foot early on and watched the first Test from the sidelines from where, "I saw my first sight of bodyline".I learned a lot of my cricket at a young age, bowling a tennis ball against the wall of their cottage outhouse. One day, on the village field, he batted against me and the single stroke I remember, that fleeting memory, has him clipping the ball precisely and dismissively square off his legs, with no more than a flick of the wrist. Anyone who saw it now would recognise a classy stroke by any standards.Eat your heart out Brian Close and Matthew Hayden. "Each time Constantine followed through to try and catch the ball as it dropped, Gunn blew him a raspberry and toddled back to his crease." Great stuff. You didn't catch Bradman blowing raspberries. coach handbags
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