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Bodyline - 80 years on

Friday 7 June 2013 12:05, UK

  1. Image: The MCC touring party waved off by well wishers from Tilbury docks
  2. Image: The voyage to Australia aboard the Orient liner Orontes took more than a month
  3. Image: There was plenty of time to contemplate the challenge ahead
  4. Image: Nottinghamshire bowlers Bill Voce and Harold Larwood relaxing on deck
  5. Image: Pelham Warner, pictured here in 1910, was MCC tour manager
  6. Image: Australia skipper Bill Woodfull bowled for a duck by Larwood in the second innings of the first Test in Sydney
  7. Image: MCC captain Douglas Jardine leading out his side for the second Test in Melbourne
  8. Image: Jack Fingleton and Bradman walking out to bat in Melbourne
  9. Image: Bradman bowled for a duck by Bill Bowes in the first innings in Melbourne
  10. Image: Larwood bowling to Fingleton during the second Test in Melbourne
  11. Image: Woodfull ducking a Larwood delivery during the fourth Test in Brisbane
  12. Image: Eddie Paynter left his hospital bed to hit the winning runs in the tourists' Ashes-clinching victory in Brisbane
  13. Image: Gubby Allen, an amateur, refused to adopt Jardine's leg theory tactics but still picked up 21 wickets in the series
  14. Image: Bradman averaged 56.57 in the series compared to his career mark of 99.94

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