D.R. Jardine Britain (GBR)
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Leg break
	Tests	First-class
Matches	22	262
Runs scored	1296	14848
Batting average	48.00	46.83
100s/50s	1/10	35/72
Top score	127	214
Balls bowled	6	2582
Wickets	0	48
Bowling average	n/a	46.83
5 wickets in innings	0	1
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	n/a	6/28
Catches/stumpings	26/0	188/0
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Douglas Robert Jardine (23 October 1900, Bombay - 18 June 1958, Montreux) was a British cricketer and captain of the controversial 1932-33 Bodyline tour of Australia. He captained the England side from 1931 to 1933-34. October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar, but a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. ... This article or section should be merged with Mumbai Mumbai (previously known as Bombay) is the worlds most populous conurbation, and is the sixth most populous agglomeration in the world. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Montreux is a resort town in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, on Lake Geneva with a population of 22,897. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... Bill Woodfull evades a Bodyline ball. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ...

Jardine was born in India of Scottish descent. His parents were Malcolm Robert Jardine, who himself played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Middlesex, and Alison Moir. Douglas Jardine was educated at Horris Hill School, Newbury, Berkshire, Winchester College and Oxford University, and habitually wore the Oxford University Harlequin cap on the cricket field, which some saw as a symbol of pretension. He made his Test debut for England against the West Indies at Lord's in 1928. A skilled right-handed batsman, he was arguably England's best amateur batsman of his time - an age when cricketers were still divided between upper class amateurs and working class professionals. First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ... Oxford University Cricket Club (now subsumed into the Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence) is a first-class cricket team. ... Middlesex County Cricket Club is a first-class cricket club in England, named after the historic county of Middlesex in which their home ground, Lords Cricket Ground in London, is located. ... Winchester College is a well-known boys independent school, and an example of a British public school, in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, England. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Harlequin dancing with Columbina. ... A Test match in progress. ... The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. ... The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Warwickshire batsman Mike Powell A batsman in the sport of cricket is, depending on context: Any player in the act of batting. ...

He toured Australia with the English team in 1928-29. He played in all five Test matches, scoring 341 runs at the commendable average of 42.63. His skills displayed throughout the year led Wisden to name Jardine a Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1928. Wisden is the main publisher of information on cricket in the United Kingdom. ... The Wisden Cricketers of the Year award is made annually in the pages of the Wisden Cricketers Almanack yearbook. ...

During the tour of Australia, for some reason Jardine appeared to develop an intense dislike for the country and its people. Australians claim that this was provoked by his own pretentious behaviour, as cricket fans took exception to his exclusive Harlequin cap and somewhat haughty attitude. It is recorded that during one tour match Australian player Hunter Hendry expressed his sympathies to Jardine for the jeers the crowd was giving him, and Jardine responded, "All Australians are uneducated, and an unruly mob." Hunter Scott Thomas Laurie Hendry (aka Stork) (May 24, 1895 in Double Bay, New South Wales - December 16, 1988, Rose Bay, New South Wales) was a former New South Wales and Australian cricketer. ...

Later, at the second Test in Sydney where the crowd was again hurling abuse at Jardine, fellow English cricketer Patsy Hendren observed that "They don't seem to like you very much over here, Mr Jardine." Jardine replied, "It's fucking mutual." The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ... Elias Henry Patsy Hendren (5 February 1889 - 4 October 1962) was one of the finest English batsmen of the period between the wars, averaging 47. ...

Jardine did not play in the 1930 English Test series against the touring Australian team because he preferred to attend to business appointments that summer. Nevertheless, he took a great interest in the extraordinary batting skills of Australia's Don Bradman, who finished the tour with a record (unbeaten to this day) aggregate of 974 Test runs at an average of 139.14. Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Sir Donald George Bradman (August 27, 1908 - February 25, 2001) was an Australian cricket player who is universally regarded as the greatest batsman of all time, and one of Australias greatest popular heroes. ... Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively. ...

Following this tour, Jardine held a meeting with Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce. Together they devised a plan of attack aimed at countering Bradman's skills. This became known in the press as Bodyline. Jardine never referred to this kind of short-pitched bowling as "bodyline", preferring to call it "Fast Leg Theory". Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Nottinghamshire. ... Arthur William Carr (21 May 1893, Mickleham, Surrey, England - 7 February 1963, West Witton, Yorkshire) was an English cricket player. ... Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. ... Harold Larwood (November 14, 1904 - July 22, 1995) was an English cricket player, an extremely quick and accurate fast bowler best known for his key role as the implementer of fast leg theory in the infamous Bodyline Ashes Test series of 1932-33. ... Bill Voce (8 August 1909, Annesley Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England - 6 June 1984, Lenton, Nottinghamshire) was an English cricket player. ...

Jardine was appointed captain of the English touring team to Australia in 1932-33, and used the Bodyline tactics ruthlessly and effectively against his opposition. He also appreciated the benefit of psychologically boosting his own players; on the boat trip out to Australia he encouraged his team to foster a hatred for the Australian players, and to refer to Don Bradman exclusively as "the little bastard". Sir Donald George Bradman (August 27, 1908 - February 25, 2001) was an Australian cricket player who is universally regarded as the greatest batsman of all time, and one of Australias greatest popular heroes. ...

In Australia, Larwood and Voce repeatedly hit Australian batsmen with fast balls, causing outrage amongst Australian fans. In the third Test at Adelaide, Larwood struck Australian captain Bill Woodfull over the heart, resulting in serious injury. Jardine's reaction was to call audibly to Larwood, "Well bowled, Harold!" Later in the same game, Australian wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield was struck on the head by another Larwood delivery, which fractured his skull (although Oldfield admitted that this was his fault as the injury was caused by the ball deflecting off the bat into his head). Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia, with a population of over 1. ... Bill Woodfull William Bill Woodfull (22 August 1897, Maldon, Victoria, Australia - 11 August 1965, Tweed Heads South, New South Wales) was an Australian cricket player. ... A wicket keeper in characteristic position, ready to face a delivery. ... William Albert Stanley Bert Oldfield (9 September 1894, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 10 August 1976, Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian cricket player. ...

Despite the uproar by the Australian public and the Australian Board of Control for Cricket, Jardine insisted his tactic was not designed to cause injury and that he was leading his team in a sportsmanlike and gentlemanly manner, arguing that it was up to the Australian batsmen to play their way out of trouble. It seems he did genuinely regret the injuries suffered by his opponents, as he secretly sent a telegram of sympathy to Bert Oldfield's wife and arranged for presents to be given to his young daughters. Cricket Australia logo Cricket Australia (ABN 53 006 089 130) an Australian Public Company, Limited By Guarantee, formerly the Australian Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional cricket in Australia. ...

But his popularity with the general Australian public never recovered. In a famous incident recorded by the press, Jardine was on the field and trying to brush a persistent fly away from his face when a spectator yelled across the ground, "Leave our flies alone, Jardine! They're the only flamin' friends you've got here!"

Strongly-worded cables passed between the Australian Board of Control, who asserted that Bodyline bowling has assumed such proportions as to menace the best interests of the game, making protection of the body the main consideration, and the MCC. The Australians threatened to call off the projected tour of England in 1934. MCC at length agreed that a form of bowling which is obviously a direct attack by the bowler upon the batsman would be an offence against the spirit of the game. Jardine always defended his tactics and in a book he wrote about the tour described allegations that the England bowlers directed their attack with the intention of causing physical harm as stupid and patently untruthful.

However, Jardine and his team returned to England as heroes, having convincingly won back The Ashes 4-1. He was invited by the MCC to captain England again for the Tests against India before deciding that he had no wish to captain England again and resigned before the 1934 Ashes tour. In effect, he retired from first class cricket in 1934 aged 33. The Ashes is a regular international cricket contest between England and Australia, played every two years, so named after the trophy, which is a small wooden urn, said to contain the burnt bails from an 1882 game between the countries at The Oval. ...

Finally in 1934 MCC issued a ruling: That the type of bowling regarded as a direct attack by the bowler upon the batsman, and therefore unfair, consists in persistent and systematic bowling of fast and short-pitched balls at the batsman standing clear of his wicket. That was the end of body-line bowling.

Jardine married in 1934, Irene Margaret Peat (1914-1998) daughter of Sir Harry Peat. They had 4 children, Fianach, Marion, Iona & Euan.

During the war, he was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment, serving with distinction in both France and India. The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Waless) was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 49th (Princess Charlotte of Waless) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot and the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot. ...

Jardine died from lung cancer aged 57, in Montreux, Switzerland. His ashes were returned to Scotland to be scattered at Loch Rannoch. Lung cancer is the malignant transformation and expansion of lung tissue, and is the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, responsible for up to 3 million deaths annually. ... Montreux is a resort town in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, on Lake Geneva with a population of 22,897. ... Loch Rannoch is a large body of fresh water in Perthshire, Scotland. ...

To the present day, Jardine is remembered throughout much of the cricket world as the architect of what some, particularly in Australia, consider the most vicious premeditated behaviour seen on a cricket field; but the fact remains that these tactics were certainly within the rules of the game at the time and, furthermore, the tactic of intimidating batsmen with bouncers (without a supporting Bodyline field) later became commonplace (with Australian cricket team itself mastering and employing it to perfection today). His reputation remains particularly low in Australia, where respected cricket commentator Alan McGilvray once described Jardine as "the most notorious Englishman since Jack the Ripper". However in England his reputation is as a ruthless, highly determined player and perhaps the first amateur captain with a fully professional attitude. Indeed, Sir Pelham Warner commented "If ever there was a cricket match between England and the rest of the world, and the fate of England depended upon the result, I would pick Jardine as England Captain every time". In the sport of cricket, a bouncer (or bumper) is a type of delivery, usually bowled by a fast bowler. ... The Australian cricket team, together with the English cricket team, is the joint oldest team in Test cricket having played its first Test match in 1877. ... Alan David McGilvray (born December 6, 1909 in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales - died July 17, 1996 in Darlinghurst, Sydney) was a former cricketer who played several first-class seasons for New South Wales in the mid-1930s before becoming the doyen of cricket commentators in Australia. ... Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. ... Sir Pelham Francis Warner, affectionately and better known as Plum Warner, or the Grand Old Man of English cricket was born on 2 October 1873 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and died on 30 January 1963 at West Lavington, Sussex. ...

Jardine is also remembered as the originator of what many consider one of the most eloquent descriptions of the sport of cricket:

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

Jardine played in 22 Test matches for England, scoring 1,296 runs at an average of 48.00. In his first-class cricket career, he played 262 matches, scoring 14,848 runs at an average of 46.83. He also bowled leg spin at first-class level, taking 48 wickets at an average of 31.10. A stand is named in his honour at Surrey's home ground, The Oval, London, England. First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. ... Animation of a leg break. ... Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) is an English first-class cricket team, based at The Oval cricket ground in south London. ... The famous gasometers, which are now listed buildings. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ...

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External links

• Cricinfo Player Profile : Douglas Robert Jardine