English cricket team in Australia in 1932-33
| 1932–33 Ashes series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bill Woodfull evades a bodyline ball
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| Date | 2 December 1932 – 28 February 1933 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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| Result | England won the 5-test series 4-1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Australia
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 England
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Bill Woodfull
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Douglas Jardine
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| Most runs | |||
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Donald Bradman (396) Stan McCabe (385) Bill Woodfull (305) |
Wally Hammond (440) Herbert Sutcliffe (440) Bob Wyatt (250) |
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| Most wickets | |||
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Bill O'Reilly (27) Tim Wall (16) Bert Ironmonger (15) |
Harold Larwood (33) Gubby Allen (21) Bill Voce (15) |
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A cricket team representing England toured Australia in the 1932–33 season. The tour was organised by the Marylebone Cricket Club and matches outside the Tests were played under the MCC name. The tour included five Test matches in Australia, and England won The Ashes by four games to one. The tour was highly controversial because of the bodyline bowling tactics used by the England team under the captaincy of Douglas Jardine. After the Australian tour was over, the MCC team moved on to play in New Zealand, where two further Test matches were played.
The MCC team was captained by Douglas Jardine, with Bob Wyatt as vice-captain. Pelham Warner and Richard Palairet were joint managers.
The team members were:
Walter Robins and Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji were invited to tour, but declined to do so, the latter because of ill-health.
An easy victory for England, with Bradman absent for Australia. McCabe provided Australia's only significant resistance with the bat; Larwood claimed ten match wickets. Pataudi's century on Test debut was to be his sole Test century, and he was dropped after the second Test due to his dissent against Bodyline tactics (when he refused to move to a leg-side fielding position, Jardine is said to have commented "I see his highness is a conscientious objector").
On his return, Bradman was bowled for a duck in the first innings when expecting a bouncer; Fingleton was left to hold Australia's first innings together. Nonetheless, an unbeaten century for Bradman in the second innings, and ten wickets for O'Reilly, granted Australia their only victory of the Test series.
The match best known for Bodyline, with Woodfull receiving a blow to the chest (although he stayed at the crease to make an obdurate 73 not out) and Oldfield a fractured skull from Larwood's hostile fast bowling. Larwood took seven wickets in the match, but the principal wicket-taker was Allen, who took four in either innings despite his notable dissent against Bodyline.
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