Bodyline quotes
Bodyline ... what they said
Rockley Wilson, the former Yorkshire and England spinner and Douglas Jardine's coach at Winchester, on hearing of his former pupil's selection as England captain
Douglas Jardine, who was nicknamed Sardine by the Australian crowds on the 1928-29 Ashes tour and barracked wherever he went, in response to a comment from Patsy Hendren that "the Australians don't really like you"
Plum Warner writing the day after Don Bradman made 334 at Leeds in 1930. Warner was the manager of the England side in 1932-33
Surrey captain Percy Fender after being on the receiving end of a Bradman onslaught in 1930
Jardine as he watched film of Bradman batting at The Oval in 1930 on a spiteful wicket
Harold Larwood on being told of the plans to bowl to Bradman using a form of leg theory
Bill Voce to Vic Richardson
Warner on Jardine
Gubby Allen in a letter home to his parents
Warner writing about Jardine in a letter to his wife in November 1932
Bradman's warning to team-mates after experiencing Bodyline bowling in an early match in Perth
Stan McCabe to his parents as he prepared to go out to bat. He scored 187 not out in one of the great Test innings
Jardine to the Nawab of Pataudi after he refuses to field in the leg cordon to Bodyline bowling
Vic Richardson's response the the Nawab of Pataudi. Richardson had asked why the painfully dour Nawab was batting so slowly and he had replied that he was "waiting for the pace of the wicket to change"
Jardine to Stork Hendry, Australia's wicketkeeper
Archie Jackson, who even though only 23 had played his last game for Australia. He died of TB less than a fortnight after writing these words in a newspaper column
Former Australian spinner Arthur Mailey on the first signs of Bodyline at Melbourne
Bill Bowes after bowling Bradman first ball. It was his only wicket of the series
Bob Wyatt after Bradman's first baller to spectators who had been taunting him with cries of "Wait till our Don comes in"
The Nawab of Pataudi who scored a hundred on debut in the first Test and was dropped for the rest of the series after the second
Jardine's loud comment after Larwood had felled Bill Woodfull with a ball in the chest
Australian selector Bill Johnson on Jardine's decision to switch to a Bodyline field immediately after Woodfull had been hit
Woodfull, Australia's captain, to Warner during the nadir of the series on the third day at Adelaide. Warner had gone to Australian dressing room to check if Woodfull was alright
Teetotaller Woodfull on being told that no more beer would be brought to the dressing room for his players as they had exceeded their allowance
Bert Oldfield to Larwood after he had been hit in the head
Bill O'Reilly reveals the tension inside the Australian dressing room
Bradman explains his cavalier approach to batting in Australia's second innings. He hit his first six in a Test and perished trying to do the same off the next ball
Richardson on opening the dressing-room door to face Jardine demanding an apology after he overheard one of the Australians sledging Larwood
Story recounted by Larwood who was pointed out to her son by a women while he was visiting a theatre in Adelaide
writing in his newspaper column
Lead article in Melbourne's Truth newspaper
Bradman to a friend, according to Jack Fingleton
Eddie Paynter shrugs off praise after he left his hospital bed to rescue England's first innings with a battling 83
A telegram from Jackson to Larwood on the penultimate day of the Brisbane Test. Jackson died later that night
Jardine to an exhausted Larwood after he asked to be rested for the final Test
O'Reilly offers Larwood his wicket rather than face Bodyline
Jardine to Larwood after he had made 98 as a nightwatchman
Fast bowler Bull Alexander's gleeful yell when he struck Jardine a painful blow on the hip. Clearly hurt, Jardine barely flinched
Jardine to Larwood after he had broken down in the final Test. He refused to allow a crippled Larwood to leave the field until Bradman was out. The two left the field together, albeit ignoring each other
Encouragement to Aboriginal fast bowler Eddie Gilbert when Jardine came in to bat during the Queensland tour match
Aimed at Larwood after a series of particularly short bouncers
The SCG's legendary Yabba to Maurice Tate after he had changed his boots for the third time in a session during a state game against New South Wales
Yelled at Jardine as he tried to swat a particularly persistent fly away
Jardine's favourite piece of barracking from Sydney crowd
Martin Williamson is executive editor of Cricinfo