Harold Larwood
Harold Larwood was a professional cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team between 1924 and 1938. A right-arm fast bowler, he was considered by many commentators to be the finest bowler of his generation. He made his Test debut in 1926, in only his second season in first-class cricket, and was a member of the 1928–29 touring side that retained the Ashes in Australia. He later played in two Test matches for the England national team against Australia in 1936 and 1937.
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Harold Larwood was a professional cricketer for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team between 1924 and 1938. A right-arm fast bowler who combined unusual speed with great accuracy, he was considered by many commentators to be the finest bowler of his generation. He made his Test debut in 1926, in only his second season in first-class cricket, and was a member of the 1928–29 touring side that retained the Ashes in Australia. The advent of the Australian batsman Don Bradman ended a period of English cricket supremacy. Larwood and other bowlers were completely dominated by Bradman during Australia’s victorious tour of 1930. Thereafter, under the guidance of England’s combative captain Douglas Jardine, the fast leg theory or bodyline bowling attack was developed. With Larwood as its spearhead the tactic was used with considerable success in the 1932–33 Test series in Australia and soured cricketing relations between the two countries. He and his family emigrated to Australia, where he was warmly welcomed, in contrast to the reception accorded him in his cricketing days. He worked for a soft drinks firm, and as an occasional reporter and commentator on Tests against visiting England sides. He was honoured at his old county ground, Trent Bridge, where a stand was named after him. In 1993 he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in belated recognition of his services to cricket.
He died two years later, aged 88, at the age of 88, in 1993, at his home town of Nuncargate, near the coal mining town of Kirkby-in-Ashfield. He had shown an early talent for cricket and began to play for the Nottinghamshire second team in 1918. By 1920 he was in the first team, alongside his father playing in plimsolls because the family could not afford to buy him proper cricket boots. Despite his short stature, Larwood had acquired considerable stamina and upper body strength from his body strength and could bowl at aconcertingly fast speed. In 1949, after years out of the limelight, Lar Wood was elected to honorary membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) The following year he was encouraged by former opponent Jack Fingleton to emigrate and settle in Australia, and worked as a reporter and commentator. In April 1923 he and his father made the journey to Trent Bridge for a trial at the county ground. In the first season he took 76 wickets at an average of 4.5 runs per wicket, and in the second season he played in the county’s final match of the season. He also played in a Test match for England against Australia at Lord’s in 1934. In his first season at Nottinghamshire he played against experienced adults, in his first year at the club, and his average was 4.4 runs per game. He later played in two Test matches for the England national team against Australia in 1936 and 1937.
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