It says much for the series that Bodyline remains the only chapter in cricket’s history that film-makers have thought worth dramatising with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation producing a documentary in 2002.
Jardine resigned as England captain before Australia’s 1934 Ashes tour and retired from first-class cricket aged 33.
That same year the MCC outlawed systematic bowling of fast and short-pitched balls at batsmen standing clear of their wicket.
Bradman, once lauded as ‘the greatest living Australian’, died in Adelaide on February 25, 2001 aged 92, while Jardine died from lung cancer aged 57, in Montreux, Switzerland, in June 1958.
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