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Oct 23, 2019 Almanack. A successful though, at times, controversial England captain, Douglas Jardine was born on October 23, 1900 and passed away on June 18, 1958. His obituary appeared in the 1959 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2019 is the 156th edition of ‘the bible of cricket’. Order your copy now.
DOUGLAS ROBERT JARDINE, who provides a striking instance of heredity at cricket, was born on October 23, 1900, at Bombay, India. The best of reasons existed for him becoming the soundest of ...
Douglas Jardine. Douglas Robert Jardine ( Bombay, Indian Empire 23 October 1900 – Montreux, Switzerland 18 June 1958) was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933–34. [1] A right-handed batsman, he played 22 Test matches for England, captaining the side in 15 matches, winning nine, losing one and ...
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Jardine played first-class cricket between 1920 and 1948, though little in the last dozen of those years: during that period, he scored 14,823 runs at an average of 46.90. In his 12 Test matches ...
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Mar 9, 2024 · The man leading the group was a ‘Bombay boy’. Just a year earlier, Douglas Jardine, had been at the centre of controversy over his leg-side bouncer bowling strategy – dubbed ‘Bodyline’ by the Australian press, that had propelled the game into crisis and even threatened relations between Britain and her Australian colonies.
