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The Third Test of the 1932–33 Ashes series was one of five Tests in a cricket series between Australia and England. The match was played at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide from 13 to 19 January 1933, with a rest day on 15 January. England won the match by 338 runs to take a series lead of 2 Tests to 1 with 2 Tests to play.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Australia v England: Marylebone Cricket Club in Australia 1932/33 (3rd Test) )〕 The Test was noted as the one in which the controversy over the use of Bodyline tactics by the English team came to a head. These tactics, employed by the England fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce on the direction of their captain, Douglas Jardine, engendered much ill-feeling. ==Background== In 1932–33, the English team led by Douglas Jardine toured Australia and won the Ashes in a highly acrimonious series known as the Bodyline series. It has been described as the most controversial period in Australian cricket history,〔Colman, p. 171.〕 and voted the most important Australian moment by a panel of Australian cricket identities.〔Haigh and Frith, foreword.〕 The English team used controversial bowling tactics where the English fast bowlers Harold Larwood, Bill Voce and Bill Bowes bowled the cricket ball roughly on the line of leg stump. The deliveries were often short pitched, bouncing as high as the head and torso of the batsman, with four or five fielders close by on the leg side waiting to catch deflections off the bat. The tactics were difficult for batsmen to counter. The only options for a batsman were to duck, carrying the risk of being hit on pitches with irregular bounce, or to play the ball. However, defensive shots risked a catch in the cordon, while hooking carried the danger of being hit in the head at dangerous speeds.〔〔Haigh and Frith, p. 70.〕〔Piesse, p. 130.〕 The bowling was designed to be intimidatory, causing controversy and ill-feeling among the Australian players and crowds.〔〔〔Douglas, p. 103.〕 The primary target of Bodyline was Donald Bradman who had overwhelmed the English bowling in the 1930 Ashes series. Generally regarded as the greatest batsman of all time, Bradman had scored a world record 974 Test runs during that series, a feat which remains unsurpassed.〔Cashman, pp. 32–35.〕 English cricket commentators feared that Bradman would be unstoppable on good Australian batting wickets in 1932–33 and looked for weaknesses.〔Frith, pp. 37–39.〕 On the journey to Australia, Jardine discussed tactics with Larwood and other bowlers, and he may have met senior batsmen Wally Hammond and Herbert Sutcliffe. Some players reported that Jardine told them to hate the Australians to defeat them, while instructing them to refer to Bradman as "the little bastard."〔Frith, pp. 61, 66.〕 At this stage, he seems to have settled on leg theory, if not full Bodyline, as his main tactic.〔Douglas, pp. 123–24.〕 While Jardine's unfriendly approach and superior manner caused some friction with the press and spectators, the early tour matches were uncontroversial and Larwood and Voce had a light workload in preparation for the Test series.〔Frith, pp. 69, 90–91.〕〔Douglas, p.126.〕 This changed in the match against an Australian XI where the bowlers first used Bodyline tactics. Under the captaincy of Bob Wyatt, Jardine having rested from the match, the England attack bowled short and around leg stump, with fielders positioned close by on the leg side to catch any deflections. Wyatt later claimed that this was not pre-planned and he simply passed on to Jardine what happened after the match. The Bodyline tactics continued in the next match and several players were hit.〔Frith, pp. 94, 102.〕 The Australian press were shocked and criticised the hostility of Larwood in particular.〔Frith, pp. 97–98.〕 Former players joined the criticism by saying that the tactics were ethically wrong. However, at this stage, not everyone was opposed.〔Frith, pp. 106–07.〕 The Australian Board of Control believed the English bowlers had not bowled unfairly when Bradman expressed his concern to them.〔Frith, p. 99.〕 Jardine increasingly came into disagreement with tour manager Plum Warner over Bodyline as the tour progressed.〔Frith, p. 98.〕 Warner opposed Bodyline but would not speak out against it. However, he was accused of hypocrisy for not taking a stand on either side,〔Growden, pp. 62–63.〕 particularly after expressing sentiments at the start of the tour that cricket "has become a synonym for all that is true and honest. To say 'that is not cricket' implies something underhand, something not in keeping with the best ideals ... all who love it as players, as officials or spectators must be careful lest anything they do should do it harm."〔Frith, p. 68.〕 Furthermore, he had criticised bowler Bill Bowes for using short-pitched bowling against Jack Hobbs in a match at the end of the 1932 season.〔Frith, pp. 49–50.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Third Test, 1932–33 Ashes series」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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