The Bodyline Controversy
By: Laurence Le Quesne.
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Cricket -- Australia -- History.; Cricket -- England -- History.; Cricket -- Bowling.
First sentence: Much of this book is to be about the strange and little-understood phenomena of crowd behaviour and mass emotion.
Description: A detailed reappraisal of the England cricket team's "Bodyline" tour to Australia in 1932/33; the circumstances surrounding the tour, the events on and off the field - both in Australia and in England, and the continuing reverberation of the affair in the following years.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: vi; title: Foreword by G.O. Allen
pagenum: vii; title: Author's Note
pagenum: viii; title: Preface and Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: xiii; title: Chapter 1
pagenum: 1; title: Chapter 2
pagenum: 24; title: Chapter 3
pagenum: 45; title: Chapter 4
pagenum: 76; title: Chapter 5
pagenum: 96; title: Chapter 6
pagenum: 119; title: Chapter 7
pagenum: 142; title: Chapter 8
pagenum: 161; title: Chapter 9
pagenum: 198; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 222; title: Notes on Sources
pagenum: 233; title: Index
pagenum: 237