Tour of Australia & New Zealand1932-33        Captain :  Douglas Jardine      

31st England Test tour.

(October 1932 - March 1933)

Nineteenth Test-playing tour of Australia; second tour of New Zealand 

 (previous tours 1928-29 and 1929-30 respectively)            

Playing

Other England tours

Previous Test tour

South Africa 1930-31

Next Test tour

India 1933-34

Next Test tour of Australia

1936-37

Next Test tour of New Zealand   1946-47

Members of the Test tour party (17)

Opening batsmen:  Herbert Sutcliffe, Bob Wyatt, Douglas Jardine

Middle-order batsmen Wally Hammond, Morice Layland, Nawab of Pataudi, Eddie Paynter

Wicket-keeper: Les Ames, George Duckworth

Slow bowlers: Hedley Verity, Tommy Mitchell, Freddie Brown

Fast bowlers: Bill Bowes, Harold Larwood, Bill Voce, Gubby Allen, Maurice Tate

County representation:

Dy - Derbyshire (1)

Gs - Gloucestershire (1)

Kt - Kent (1)

La - Lancashire (2)

Mx - Middlesex (1)

Nt - Nottinghamshire (2)

Sy - Surrey (2)

Sx - Sussex (2)

Wk - Warwickshire (1)

Y - Yorkshire (4)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

(2 December 1932) :

    29 yrs 4 months.

Key to type:

RHB Right-handed bat

RM  Right arm medium-paced bowler

RFM  Right-arm fast medium

OB   Off-break

WK  Wicket-keeper

Test Appearances made before the tour

Sutcliffe 39,  Tate 37,  Hammond 32,  Duckworth 19,  Larwood 16,  Leyland 15,  Wyatt 15,  Jardine 11,  Voce 11,  Ames 9, Allen 4,  Brown 3,  Paynter 2,  Verity 2,  Bowes 1,  Mitchell 0,  Pataudi 0.

Tour Officials

⋆Selectors

Lord Hawke (chairman),  Pelham Warner,  Peter Perrin,  Tommy Higson,  Douglas Jardine

Selection

Unavailable:   K.S.Duleepsinhji (illness),  Walter Robins (business)

Tour Party Announced :

“It was [Jardine] who suggested that Bill Bowes who couldn’t bat for nuts should replace Duleepsinhji, who was the second-best batsman after Hammond, in the original side. The original selection, which included Duleep, gave us no hint that a bouncer campaign was contemplated. The final arrangement with Bowes coming into the team positively reeked of it.” 

                                                                                   Bill ‘Tiger’ O’Reilly - Sixty Years in Cricket  1985 (Collins)

Time between selection and departure from England

   days

 (  - 17 September)

Travel

Tilbury      T      Fremantle

               ‘Orontes’

Sydney      T      Wellington

            ‘Maunganui’

There were two pre-tour matches for the M.C.C. team, against Mr H D G Leveson-Gower's XI and against A Rest of England XI.  J H Parks of Sussex played for M.C.C. in the second of these matches because of illness.

The team sailed from Tilbury on the RMS 'Orontes', leaving on 17 September 1932. They sailed via Gibraltar, Toulon, Naples, Port Said and Colombo where Pataudi joined the ship (on 7 October). They arrived in Australia on 18 October at Fremantle.

Maurice Tate left England late because he was unwell, and boarded the 'Strathneyer' at Marseilles, sailing via Bombay and Fremantle to Melbourne.

The team caught the express train from Melbourne to Sydney on 16 March and sailed that afternoon for New Zealand, on the 'Maunganui'  arriving at Wellington on Monday 20 March 1933. Sutcliffe, already in NZ, met them there.

Time spent in Australia

    days

(18 October -  16 March)

Time spent in New Zealand

    days

(20 March -  4 April

On-tour selection panel

Douglas Jardine (captain),  Herbert Sutcliffe (senior professional)  and  Pelham Warner (manager), assisted by Wally Hammond, Les Ames and Bob Wyatt (who were added on Jardine's suggestion).

Reinforcements

The manager, Pelham Warner (50) and Jack Hobbs (50), on tour as a columnist for the London Star, each played in one minor match at Newcastle. This rather upset the spectators who wanted to see the full Test XI.

Fixtures/Results

† not first-class

Time spent in Australia before First Test:  

 28 days

(18 October - 21 November)

Test appearances on tour

(v Australia and NZ 1932-33)

7 -   Allen,  Ames,  Hammond,  Sutcliffe,  Wyatt.

6 -   Jardine,  Leyland,  Voce.

5 -   Larwood,  Paynter,  Verity.

4 - 

3 - 

2 -   Bowes,  Brown,  Mitchell,  Pataudi

1 -   Duckworth,  Tate.

0 - 

Match appearances

T  Test match

x other match 

p  practice match

 W won  L lost  D drawn

N no result   C  cancelled 

A abandoned

u unknown result

Highlights

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•   In the fifth Test Hammond scored 101 and 75 not out, following these scores in New Zealand with 227 and 336 not out: a run of 739 runs for twice out.

•   Hammond’s score of 336*  beat Bradman's world record Test score of 334.

•   Bill Bowes had six victims in the innings at Auckland, all bowled.

Tour Summary

F  Fixtures   W  Won   L  Lost   D Drawn   T  Tied  Canc  Cancelled  Aban  abandoned

Return to England

Sydney      T      Auckland

               ‘’Aorangi

The Nawab of Pataudi and Larwood left the tour party early.  Larwood had a foot injury and returned to England on the 'Orontes'. He was met by his county captain Arthur Carr at Suez, and the ship reached London on 9 April.

The tour party left Auckland for home on the 'Aorangi' on 4 April.

Time away from England

  x days  

(17 September  -

Finances

Accounts of the tour

“Anti-Bodyline”  by Alan Kippax (Hurst & Blackett Ltd, London 1933)

"The Bodyline Hypocrisy: Conversations with Harold Larwood"  by Michael Arnold (Know The Score Books, 2009)

"Bodyline- the cricket war between England and Australia”  by Philip Derriman (Grafton, 1986) (tie-in with TV Mini-series, Hugo Weaving and Gary Sweet, DVD)

“Bradman and the Bodyline Series”  by E W Docker (Angus & Robertson, 1978)

“Cricket Crisis: bodyline and other lines”  byJack Fingleton 1947

"Bodyline Autopsy: The Full Story of the Most Sensational Test Cricket Series " by David Frith (Aurum Press, 2003)

 “Harold Larwood” by Duncan Hamilton (Quercus, 2009)

“'Jardine Justified”  by Bruce Harris (Chapman & Hall, 1933)

"Bodyline Umpire" by R S Whitington and George Hele (Rigby, Adelaide, 1974)

"The Fight for the Ashes"   by Jack Hobbs (Harrap, 1933)

"In Quest of The Ashes" Douglas Jardine (1933; new edition with foreword by John Arlott 1984)

“Bodyline?”  by Harold Larwood (Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd, 1933)

“The Larwood Story”  by Harold Larwood (with Kevin Perkins) (Bonpara, 1982)

“The Bodyline Controversy”  by Lawrence LeQuesne (Secker & Warburg, 1983)

“And Then Came Larwood”  by Arthur Mailey (Bodley Head, 1933)

“Ashes in the Mouth”  Roanld Mason (Hambledon Press, 1982)

“Cricket and Empire: the 1932-33 bodyline tour of Australia”  by Ric Sissons & Brian Stoddart (Allen & Unwin, 1984)

“Cricket’s Imperial Crisis of 1932-33”  by Brian Stoddart  (Australian Cricket Society, 1983)

"Defending The Ashes"  by R.W.E.Wilmot (Brown, Prior & Co, 1933;  further edition Methuen, 2005)

Postscript

Other tours in 1932-33

None