That's my great great uncle (:

A brilliant cricketer and a complete gentleman - NO sportsperson has ever been more unjustly treated than Harold.

One of the greats indeed! Truly vicious,no matter what the field settings!

From Hucknall, just 4/5 miles from me. My grandfather met him and Bill Voce once. Always learned as much as I can about him. Never heard or read anything other than what absolute gentleman he was, and what a pleasure he was was to meet. Unless you're meeting him from 22 yards obviously.

He was a truly great bowler. Not just lightning fast but deadly accurate too. Imagine facing him even with all the modern-day gear let alone in the 30s with none of it! Wow!

Fantastic bowling action.

Unbelievable pace ....A true great .

I've never seen anything like what he sent down at 1:20, that snap; what an action. So unique.

One amazing fact, he appeared in the final Test of the 1926 Ashes series in which England won with Wilfred Rhodes, who played Test cricket in the 19th century and with W.G.Grace!

A wonderful presentation.

I'm a 'Nuncar lad' he was down t'pit with me dad & Grandad. Met him 4 times when he visited my club Kirkby Portland. What a lovely man, glad he never bowled at me in his prime. We had a 'Do' for him& Bill Voce in the local (Cricketers Arms), the breeze blew the curtain behind Lol and Bill said "Bogger me, he's still got the bloody wind behind him". True.

Larwood was treated disgracefully by the MCC and the establishment.  They didn't have the guts to blame "gentleman" Jardine so they sacrificed "player" Larwood.  In his prime, Larwood had the reputation of being the most accurate bowler (not just fast and hostile) of his generation.  Without him (and perhaps Voce) leg theory would not have worked.

Real gentlemen of cricket and Richie benaud the voice if summer dayz

Man could bowl

From the opening slo-mo frames of his action at the crease, it’s quite obvious that Larwood was seriously quick.

Remarkable interview with Fred. Plum Warner and Jardine might have apologised. Maybe Plum did. I respected Plum. Ambiguous about the Scot DJ. Harold was plying his trade at the instructions of his so-called ‘betters’.

Harold came from Notts. I joined the British Army in 1978. Infantry. Due to economic socio-political circumstances, a lot of redundant ex-Nottinghamshire miners in my intake. Magnificent, tough, hard men but rarely mouthy or full of their own piss and importance.

Harold seems from that mould.

The greatest fast bowler ever

I wish the MCC despite banning fast leg theory had retained Larwood and Jardine in the team. It'd have been glorious to see the Larwood vs Bradman contest in England during the next Ashes series. A brilliant bowler destroyed by the bureaucrats.

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I never hated sir Harold Larwood but i despised Douglas Jardine for making him bowl in that style but in that final test of that bodyline Series in Brisbane 1933 and my Grandmother was a young nurse at Royal Brisbane hospital and had to treat Eddie Painter one of a England middle order and he collapsed on the field due to illness and heat exposure and Jardine tried to sneak him out of the hospital when the matron the Doctor and my Grandmother order Jardine to go across the road back to the game Eddie Painter was batting the next day.

Nice sir g Sami samtia Pakistan miss u all time