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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Richardson suggests that the Australians try using the Bodyline tactic against the English. Captain Woodfull refuses. [[note]]Out of principle or because Australian fast-bowling resources were thin that season? You decide. A few seasons earlier England were welcome to all the bumps and bruises they liked against the Australians [=McDonald=] and Gregory. During one of the non-Test matches on the tour, Jardine was knocked off his feet by a fast ball from Aboriginal bowler Eddy Gilbert, which hit him on the hip-bone. He thanked the Australians who asked if he was all right, put his cap back on and continued batting. When he was out, and safely behind a closed dressing-room door, he swore extremely loudly and all but collaped; his team-mates removed his trousers to reveal a bloody weal the size of a saucer. Jardine had his faults, but had more than stomach enough for his own medicine.[[/note]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Richardson suggests that the Australians try using the Bodyline tactic against the English. Captain Woodfull refuses. [[note]]Out of principle or because Australian fast-bowling resources were thin that season? You decide. A few seasons earlier England were welcome to all the bumps and bruises they liked against the Australians [=McDonald=] and Gregory. During one of the non-Test matches on the tour, Jardine was knocked off his feet by a fast ball from Aboriginal bowler Eddy Gilbert, which hit him on the hip-bone. He thanked the Australians who asked if he was all right, put his cap back on and continued batting. When he was out, and safely behind a closed dressing-room door, he swore extremely loudly and all but collaped; his team-mates removed his trousers to reveal a bloody weal the size of a saucer. Jardine had his faults, but had more than stomach enough for his own medicine.[[/note]][[/note]]
* TapOnTheHead: Realistically portrayed. Oldfield gets struck in the forehead by a short pitched (non Bodyline) delivery. He collapses, has to be helped off the field and taken to hospital where it is revealed that he fractured his skull.
* TapOnTheHead: Realistically portrayed. Oldfield gets struck in the forehead by a short pitched (non Bodyline) delivery. He collapses, has to be helped off the field and taken to hospital where it is revealed that he fractured his skull.
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** And, "Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?"
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** And, "Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?"bastard?"
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Richardson suggests that the Australians try using the Bodyline tactic against the English. Captain Woodfull refuses. [[note]]Out of principle or because Australian fast-bowling resources were thin that season? You decide. A few seasons earlier England were welcome to all the bumps and bruises they liked against the Australians [=McDonald=] and Gregory. During one of the non-Test matches on the tour, Jardine was knocked off his feet by a fast ball from Aboriginal bowler Eddy Gilbert, which hit him on the hip-bone. He thanked the Australians who asked if he was all right, put his cap back on and continued batting. When he was out, and safely behind a closed dressing-room door, he swore extremely loudly and all but collaped; his team-mates removed his trousers to reveal a bloody weal the size of a saucer. Jardine had his faults, but had more than stomach enough for his own medicine.[[/note]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Richardson suggests that the Australians try using the Bodyline tactic against the English. Captain Woodfull refuses. [[note]]Out of principle or because Australian fast-bowling resources were thin that season? You decide. A few seasons earlier England were welcome to all the bumps and bruises they liked against the Australians [=McDonald=] and Gregory. During one of the non-Test matches on the tour, Jardine was knocked off his feet by a fast ball from Aboriginal bowler Eddy Gilbert, which hit him on the hip-bone. He thanked the Australians who asked if he was all right, put his cap back on and continued batting. When he was out, and safely behind a closed dressing-room door, he swore extremely loudly and all but collaped; his team-mates removed his trousers to reveal a bloody weal the size of a saucer. Jardine had his faults, but had more than stomach enough for his own medicine.[[/note]]
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* BerserkButton: The MCC balks at the accusation of "unsportsmanlike" behaviour, and threatens to abandon the tour if it isn't retracted. Douglas' parentage is also one.
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* BerserkButton: The MCC balks at the accusation of "unsportsmanlike" behaviour, and threatens to abandon the tour if it isn't retracted. Douglas' parentage is also one.one.
* ClusterFBomb: The crowd at the Adelaide test when things turn nasty. The police were brought in to protect the English players — although even they are depicted as joining in the chant of "Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!"
** It's been said that if one person had jumped the fence in that moment, the entire crowd would have followed.
** And, "Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?"
* ClusterFBomb: The crowd at the Adelaide test when things turn nasty. The police were brought in to protect the English players — although even they are depicted as joining in the chant of "Bastard! Bastard! Bastard!"
** It's been said that if one person had jumped the fence in that moment, the entire crowd would have followed.
** And, "Which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard?"
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* BerserkButton: The MCC balks at the accusation of "unsportsmanlike" behaviour, and threatens to abandon the tour if it isn't retracted. Douglas' parentage is also one.
* BerserkButton: The MCC balks at the accusation of "unsportsmanlike" behaviour, and threatens to abandon the tour if it isn't retracted. Douglas' parentage is also one.
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In this episode of Series/{{Bodyline}}, Oldfield gets hit on the head and everyone finally realizes just how dangerous Jardine’s Bodyline leg theory is.
Woodfall and the entire Australian team threaten to resign unless the ACB takes steps to ban the tactic. All the ACB does is send a strongly worded protest cable to the MCC at Lords. The MCC get an official of the Crown involved and have him send the British High Commissioner to the Australian Prime Minister to try to smooth things over.
The Prime Minister agrees to twist the ACB’s collective arm into resuming the test series, if the English can convince Jardine to moderate his usage of the tactic. An incensed Jardine now threatens to take the entire team and abandon the series unless the ACB withdraw their strongly worded complaint.
It appears that no one will back down for now.
! Tropes found here are
Woodfall and the entire Australian team threaten to resign unless the ACB takes steps to ban the tactic. All the ACB does is send a strongly worded protest cable to the MCC at Lords. The MCC get an official of the Crown involved and have him send the British High Commissioner to the Australian Prime Minister to try to smooth things over.
The Prime Minister agrees to twist the ACB’s collective arm into resuming the test series, if the English can convince Jardine to moderate his usage of the tactic. An incensed Jardine now threatens to take the entire team and abandon the series unless the ACB withdraw their strongly worded complaint.
It appears that no one will back down for now.
! Tropes found here are
