yet another cricketing milestone

[ferret]

80 years ago today Harold Larwood caused a bit of a fuss in Australia,

[bobb]

I love watching the old clips of bodyline leg theory bowling. If a batsman can't take the heat, he should get the fuck out of the kitchen!

[Wowbagger]

It's never inappropriate to remind people why Brian Johnston called his corgi Larwood.

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It had four short legs and it swung its balls both ways.

Ithangyew!

[Deano]

There is an openly gay cricketer who's on the fringes of the England team, which seems to have passed without too much kerfuffle. This may say something about the relative maturity of cricketing and football culture. Or not.

[mrcharly-YHT]

I love watching the old clips of bodyline leg theory bowling. If a batsman can't take the heat, he should get the fuck out of the kitchen!

Absolutely.

Australians are just sore losers and can't stand any criticism of Bradman. If you say "Donald Bradman wasn't very good at cricket" then they deport you.

[clarion]

Is that why you live here?

[mrcharly-YHT]

I just observed that he couldn't hold his beer.

Next thing I knew, I was on a cattle boat to Europe.

[ferret]

They never complained when Dennis Lillie was firing into our batsmen's ribs