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🏏Bodyline Reunion: When Oldfield, Larwood and Jardine went to lunch.

The Knight Watchman

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On 14 January 1954, participants in the 1932-33 ‘Bodyline’ Ashes cricket series, England captain Douglas Jardine, English bowler Harold Larwood and Australian wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield, who suffered a fractured skull after being hit in the head by a Larwood delivery in the Adelaide Test reunited for lunch at Sydney’s Pickwick Club. Cricket tragic Prime Minister Robert Menzies also attended the lunch.

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Piano played by Don Bradman

20 Comments

@andywilley3041 3 years ago

Harold larwood, underrated fast bowler, working class and honest, forever my hero....

@Vme-xc4hr 3 years ago

It was a disgrace how the MCC treated Larwood as a scapegoat after the body line series, glad he found peace and lived a happy life in Australia afterwards

@magnushelenmcgee3563 6 days ago

Great content. I like the way you keep it succinct - many would waffle on for 10 minutes

@mrtecsom6951 3 years ago (edited)

Englands greatest ever captain and Englands greatest ever fast bowler
If Harold Larwood had been an old Etonian patrician snob like Allen he would have had 300 plus test wickets

@Marigold_Tearooms 4 years ago

I never knew about this. Great story. I’ve read alot and watched alot on bodyline.
Wish england showed the grit of Jardine during last pathetic ashes performance

@rtaj247 3 years ago

This is great to see.
And it makes me think that Ian Chappell and Botham need to bury the hatchet. It’s only a game after all !

@cricket023 4 years ago

What a brilliant story

@vasudevanramani3442 4 years ago

Historical,magical

@andrewbowen6875 3 months ago

Looks by the footage that Larwood was one of the quickest

@scruttles 4 years ago

Well done. Many thanks..

@agr7879 3 years ago

Fascinating. Thanks for that

@davejaguar6532 2 years ago

Thank you. I never knew about this lunch. As for Bert and Harold being mates, I could not imagine anyone who met Bert not wanting to be his mate. My most treasured (long retired) cricket possession to this day is my bottle of bat oil from Bert's Sydney city sports store.

@grahamalexander9956 2 years ago

Amazing !!

@WakeyandVan 2 months ago

Well done mate.

@markbailey1970 1 year ago

Beautiful video about wonderful men

@vantheman1238 3 years ago

What a marvellous treat that was thank you.

@Paulmullarkey 9 days ago

Don’t want to sound like a smart arse but I read about this lunch in Duncan Hamilton’s brilliant Larwood biography. Read it, you love it.

@gaul849 2 years ago

Or was it you don't bowl like that to us and you can think about playing in England again or is it truly about a gentleman's game.

@Spiritkill1 3 years ago

When Woodfull and Oldfield were hit by Larwood he was not bowling bodyline but to an orthodox field.

@terrya8989 9 months ago

While, Fingleton, Oldfield etc got on well with Larwood, Bradman didn't. He carried a grudge against Larwood right to the end and was very curt if they ever crossed paths. That's probably why Bradman had no friends.