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Sep 5, 2021 · Never Surrender: The Life of Douglas Jardine. Half a century ago Douglas Jardine was a forgotten man. When I was a youngster and first falling under cricket’s spell his was just a name that clung to the bottom of Wisden’s table of the most prolific centurions. Jardine managed 35, the minimum number needed to get on the list in those days.
Jun 26, 2023 · Douglas Jardine was born in Bombay in 1900 and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford and would go on to play in 22 test matches for England , 15 as Captain. He was heavily influenced by C.B Fry on batting technique and replaced the great Jack Hobbs as an opening batsman for Surrey in 1921, when Hobbs was out of action.
Feb 13, 2024 · One is Douglas Jardine, the other CK Nayadu – the two captains cutting dashing figures of the age. Jardine, with his hands behind his back, wears a white cravat with the George and Dragon crest ...
Mar 20, 2012 · The first Test of the 2012 tour is at Galle. That's where Douglas Jardine's MCC team notoriously played its 1934 one-dayer against all-Ceylon. Cars and potholes had also arrived on the island by ...
Feb 25, 2023 · Somak Adhikari. Updated on Feb 25, 2023, 09:09 IST -. The name Douglas Jardine is associated with the controversial bodyline tactic which he devised to curb Don Bradman in the 1932-33 Ashes series. However, it shook the game to its very core and was later outlawed. Good old leg theory never looked so dangerous. The batsman had to play or get hit.
Dec 6, 2016 · Modern spin doctors would tell Douglas Jardine he had an image problem – and perhaps, in historical terms, he does. Assessments of him usually accent the personal characteristics that emerged during the Bodyline series of 1932/33 – his determination phasing into stubbornness, his imperviousness up to and past the point of antagonism.
Sir Douglas James Jardine KCMG OBE (13 October 1888 – 11 December 1946) was a British colonial administrator, holding the posts of Governor of North Borneo, Sierra Leone and the Leeward Islands during his career.
