You misspelt a word so I fixed it.Bodyline!
It looks like being an interesting summer for England as they attempt to compete on equal terms with Australia once more, so Martin looks back at another series in which they were expected to struggle, but which turned out to be the most infamous Ashes series of them all
Yeah there's some footage of a rather beastly spell by Marshall going around the wicket to some chap without a helmet on. Looked rather ferocious.Bodyline was a picnic compared to facing the West Indies pace attack on dangerous wickets in the Caribbean in the mid 80's.
That reminds me of the infamous Marshsll-Boon sledge....Yeah there's some footage of a rather beastly spell by Marshall going around the wicket to some chap without a helmet on. Looked rather ferocious.
Staying over the wicket
Players involved: Malcolm Marshall and David Boon
Match: Second Test in Btisbane 1984/85 vs West Indies
What happened: Malcolm Marshall is regarded by many as the scariest West Indies quick of the 1980s, and that's saying a lot given the plethora of towering fast bowlers the Caribbean cricketers had at their disposal. After playing and missing Marshall one too many times, David Boon on debut was on the receiving end of some lip with Marshall well and truly fired up. The bowler with 374 Test wickets to his name, asked the stocky Tasmanian:
"Now David, are you going to get out now or am I going to have to bowl around the wicket and kill you?"
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/the-nastiest-sledges-in-cricket-20131125-2y52y.html
Did Clarke call it first?Coney got a ****ing broken arm for his trouble.
There's also a ball on display somewhere in the West Indies with bits of bone from Mike Gatting's nose embedded in it.Yeah there's some footage of a rather beastly spell by Marshall going around the wicket to some chap without a helmet on. Looked rather ferocious.
Whatever flaws there might have been in his technique he doesn't require mentioning in the same breath as "attempting to maim the batsman". He played a poor shot at a nothing delivery.I always thought Hughes was bad at the pullshot. He might quite an effort to improve that part of his game