English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33

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Cricket series

1932–33 Ashes series

Bill Woodfull evades a bodyline ball

Date

2 December 1932 – 28 February 1933

Location

Australia

Result

England won the 5-test series 4-1

Teams
Australia	England
Captains
Bill Woodfull	Douglas Jardine
Most runs
Donald Bradman (396) Stan McCabe (385) Bill Woodfull (305)	Wally Hammond (440) Herbert Sutcliffe (440) Bob Wyatt (250)
Most wickets
Bill O'Reilly (27) Tim Wall (16) Bert Ironmonger (15)	Harold Larwood (33) Gubby Allen (21) Bill Voce (15)

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A cricket team representing England toured Australia in the 1932–33 season. The tour was organised by the Marylebone Cricket Club and matches outside the Tests were played under the MCC name. The tour included five Test matches in Australia, and England won The Ashes by four games to one. The tour was highly controversial because of the bodyline bowling tactics used by the England team under the captaincy of Douglas Jardine. After the Australian tour was over, the MCC team moved on to play in New Zealand, where two further Test matches were played.

The MCC team

The MCC team was captained by Douglas Jardine, with Bob Wyatt as vice-captain. Pelham Warner and Richard Palairet were joint managers.

The team members were:

Douglas Jardine, Surrey, team captain & batsman
Bob Wyatt, Warwickshire, vice-captain & batsman
Gubby Allen, Middlesex, all-rounder
Les Ames, Kent, wicket-keeper
Bill Bowes, Yorkshire, fast bowler
Freddie Brown, Surrey, leg break bowler
George Duckworth, Lancashire, wicket-keeper
Wally Hammond, Gloucestershire, all-rounder
Harold Larwood, Nottinghamshire, opening fast bowler
Maurice Leyland, Yorkshire, batsman
Tommy Mitchell, Derbyshire, leg break bowler
Nawab of Pataudi, Worcestershire, batsman
Eddie Paynter, Lancashire, batsman
Herbert Sutcliffe, Yorkshire, opening batsman
Maurice Tate, Sussex, all-rounder
Hedley Verity, Yorkshire, left arm spin bowler
Bill Voce, Nottinghamshire, opening fast bowler

Walter Robins and Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji were invited to tour, but declined to do so, the latter because of ill-health.

Test matches

First Test

2–7 December
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
360 (102.2 overs) Stan McCabe 187* (233) Harold Larwood 5/96 (31 overs)		524 (229.4 overs) Herbert Sutcliffe 194 (496) Tim Wall 3/104 (38 overs)
164 (63.3 overs) Jack Fingleton 40 (120) Harold Larwood 5/28 (18 overs)		1/0 (0.1 overs) Herbert Sutcliffe 1* (1) Stan McCabe 0/1 (0.1 overs)

England won by 10 wickets
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Umpires: George Borwick (Aus) and George Hele (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Test debuts: Lisle Nagel (Australia) and the Nawab of Pataudi (England)

An easy victory for England, with Bradman absent for Australia. McCabe provided Australia's only significant resistance with the bat; Larwood claimed ten match wickets. Pataudi's century on Test debut was to be his sole Test century, and he was dropped after the second Test due to his dissent against Bodyline tactics (when he refused to move to a leg-side fielding position, Jardine is said to have commented "I see his highness is a conscientious objector").

Second Test

30 December–3 January
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
228 (86.3 overs) Jack Fingleton 83 (227) Bill Voce 3/54 (20 overs)		169 (85.3 overs) Herbert Sutcliffe 52 (182) Bill O'Reilly 5/63 (34.3 overs)
191 (56.5 overs) Donald Bradman 103* (146) Wally Hammond 3/21 (10.5 overs)		139 (55.1 overs) Herbert Sutcliffe 33 (63) Bill O'Reilly 5/66 (24 overs)

Australia won by 111 runs
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Umpires: George Borwick (Aus) and George Hele (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Test debut: Leo O'Brien (Australia)

Bradman is bowled first ball, 30 December 1932

On his return, Bradman was bowled first ball in the first innings when expecting a bouncer; Fingleton was left to hold Australia's first innings together. Nonetheless, an unbeaten century for Bradman in the second innings, and ten wickets for O'Reilly, granted Australia their only victory of the Test series.

Third Test

Main article: Third Test, 1932–33 Ashes seriesSee also: Adelaide leak

13–19 January
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

England	v	Australia
341 (146.1 overs) Maurice Leyland 83 (190) Tim Wall 5/72 (34.1 overs)		222 (95.4 overs) Bill Ponsford 85 (213) Gubby Allen 4/71 (23 overs)
412 (191.3 overs) Wally Hammond 85 (247) Bill O'Reilly 4/79 (50.3 overs)		193 (69.2 overs) Bill Woodfull 73 (208) Gubby Allen 4/50 (17.2 overs)

England won by 338 runs
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Umpires: George Borwick (Aus) and George Hele (Aus)

England won the toss and elected to bat.
Bert Oldfield (Australia) retired hurt during Australia's 1st innings after suffering a fractured skull.

The match best known for Bodyline, with Woodfull receiving a blow to the chest (although he stayed at the crease to make an obdurate 73 not out) and Oldfield a fractured skull from Larwood's hostile fast bowling (although Oldfield's injury actually came from a top-edge to a waist-high delivery, rather than a proper bouncer, and Larwood was not bowling to a leg-theory field at the time: Oldfield declared it to have been his own fault for a poor shot.) Larwood took seven wickets in the match, but the principal wicket-taker was Allen, who took four in either innings despite his notable dissent against Bodyline.

Fourth Test

10–16 February
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
340 (121 overs) Vic Richardson 83 (146) Harold Larwood 4/101 (31 overs)		356 (185.4 overs) Herbert Sutcliffe 86 (244) Bill O'Reilly 4/120 (67.4 overs)
175 (68.3 overs) Len Darling 39 (80) Gubby Allen 3/44 (17 overs)		162/4 (79.4 overs) Maurice Leyland 86 (235) Bert Ironmonger 2/47 (35 overs)

England won by 6 wickets
The Gabba, Brisbane
Umpires: George Borwick (Aus) and George Hele (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
Test debuts: Len Darling, Ernest Bromley, Hammy Love (Australia), and Thomas Mitchell (England)

A match best remembered for the heroism of Paynter, who despite spending much of the match in hospital with severe tonsillitis, scored 83 in the first innings, and won the match with a six in the second.

Fifth Test

23–28 February
(Timeless Test)
Scorecard

Australia	v	England
435 (108.2 overs) Len Darling 85 (129) Harold Larwood 4/98 (32.2 overs)		454 (171.2 overs) Wally Hammond 101 (205) Philip Lee 4/111 (40.2 overs)
182 (54.4 overs) Donald Bradman 71 (69) Hedley Verity 5/33 (19 overs)		168/2 (71.2 overs) Wally Hammond 75 (140) Bert Ironmonger 2/34 (26 overs)

England won by 8 wickets
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Umpires: George Borwick (Aus) and George Hele (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

Fine performances from both sides' middle orders (with some aid from dropped catches) led to approximate parity after the first innings. Hammond (101) and Larwood (98) in particular batted excellently; Larwood, promoted to number four as a night-watchman, scored the then highest innings ever made in that role. Bradman and Woodfull shared a partnership of 115 in Australia's second innings before Verity induced a collapse, and Wyatt and Hammond experienced little difficulty in reaching a target of 164, with Hammond in particularly belligerent form.

Ceylon

The English team had a stopover in Colombo en route to Australia and played a one-day single-innings match there against the Ceylon national team, which at that time did not have Test status.

References

"The M.C.C. Team in Australasia". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1934 ed.). Wisden. pp. 629–673.
"Ceylon v MCC 1932". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
Marikar, Hafiz (26 May 2021). "Sri Lanka played their first unofficial Test against England at Bogambara". Daily News. Retrieved 2 November 2021.

Bill Frindall, The Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1877-1978, Wisden, 1979
Chris Harte, A History of Australian Cricket, Andre Deutsch, 1993
Ray Robinson, On Top Down Under, Cassell, 1975
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1934 edition, carries tour and match reports in a section entitled "M.C.C. Team in Australasia" on pages 629 to 673.

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Matches in white background were played in England, yellow – in Australia.

International cricket tours of Australia

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2021–22 (cancelled)
Bangladesh	2003 2008
England	1876–77 1878–79 1881–82 1882–83 1884–85 1886–87 1887–88 1891–92 1894–95 1897–98 1901–02 1903–04 1907–08 1911–12 1920–21 1924–25 1928–29 1932–33§ 1936–37 1946–47§ 1950–51§ 1954–55§ 1958–59§ 1962–63§ 1965–66§ 1970–71§ 1974–75§ 1977 1978–79 1979–80 1982–83 1986–87 1987–88§ 1990–91 1994–95 1998–99 2002–03 2006–07 2010–11 2013–14 2017–18 2021–22 2022–23
India	1947–48 1967–68§ 1977–78 1980–81§ 1985–86 1991–92 1999–2000 2003–04 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2015–16 2018–19 2020–21 2024–25
New Zealand	1973–74 1980–81 1982–83 1985–86 1987–88 1989–90 1993–94 1997–98 2001–02 2004–05 2008–09 2011–12 2015–16 2016–17 2019–20 2022–23
Pakistan	1964–65§ 1972–73§ 1976–77 1978–79§ 1981–82 1983–84 1989–90 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 1999–2000 2002 2004–05 2009–10 2016–17 2019–20 2023–24 2024–25
South Africa	1910–11 1931–32§ 1952–53§ 1963–64§ 1971–72 (cancelled) 1993–94 1997–98 2000 2001–02 2005–06 2008–09 2012–13 2014–15 2016–17 2018–19 2022–23
Sri Lanka	1987–88 1989–90 1995–96 2004 2007–08 2010–11 2012–13 2016–17 2018–19 2019–20 2021–22
West Indies	1930–31 1951–52§ 1960–61 1968–69§ 1975–76 1979–80§ 1981–82 1984–85 1988–89 1992–93 1995–96 1996–97 2000–01 2005–06 2009–10 2012–13 2015–16 2020–21 2022–23 2023–24
Zimbabwe	1994–95 2003–04 2022

Tournaments hosted
World Cup	1992 2015
T20 World Cup	2022
Tri-series	1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2017–18
Other multi-team tournaments	1985 1987

Other tours
Afghanistan	2014–15
Australian Forces	1919–20 1945–46
English	1861–62 1863–64 1873–74 1902–03 1922–23 1929–30 1935–36 1979–80
England Lions	2012–13 2021
Fijian	1907–08
Ireland	2014–15
Multi-national	1971–72 2005–06
Nepal	2023–24
New Zealand	1898–99 1913–14 1925–26 1927–28 1937–38 1953–54 1961–62 1967–68 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1974–75
PNG	2014–15
Scotland	2014–15
Sri Lanka	1982–83
UAE	2014–15
World Series Cricket (West Indies & World XI)	1977-78 1978-79
Pakistan A	2024

§: Toured New Zealand as well as Australia

International cricket tours of Sri Lanka

Test and LOI tours
Afghanistan	2022-23 2023–24
Australia	1982–83 1992 1999 2003–04 2011 2016 2022 2024–25
Bangladesh	2002 2005 2007 2012–13 2016–17 2019 2020–21
England	1981–82 1992–93 2000–01 2003–04 2007–08 2011–12 2014–15 2018–19 2020–21
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South Africa	1993 2000 2004 2006 2013 2014 2018 2021–22
West Indies	1993–94 2001–02 2005 2010–11 2015-16 2019–20 2021–22 2024–25
Zimbabwe	1983–84 1996–97 1997–98 2001–02 2017 2020–21 2021–22 2023–24

Tournaments hosted
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Other tours
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Australian	1884 1890 1893 1896 1912 1926 1930 1934 1935–36 1938 1945 1948 1953 1961 1964 1969 1981
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Indian	1925–26 1944–45 1956–57 1973–74 1975–76
Kenyan	2001–02 2013–14
Malaysian	1893–94 1971–72
Multi-national	1930–31 1949–50 1950–51 1967–68
New Zealand	1927 1937–38
Pakistani	1948–49 1972–73 1975–76 1978–79
Scottish	2011–12 2013–14
West Indian	1948–49 1966–67 1974–75 1978–79
Irish	2020–21
South Africa A	2023

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