Perth (Australia) (AFP) – England and Australia begin the latest edition of the Ashes in Perth on Friday with the visitors looking to wrestle back the urn for the first time since 2015. Australia ...

On returning home in 1933 Douglas Jardine said he was "naturally displeased" with the "notorious excitability" of Australian crowds. Well, if he was displeased, then he would be ropeable now. Seventy ...

The rumblings of Bodyline – or fast leg theory as the English liked to called it – had already started, but things came to a head 83 years ago on January 14, 1933, on the second day of the third Test ...

Harold Larwood was a fastidious collector of his own memorabilia: cuttings, menu cards, photographs, letters. Through them he reconstructed his past. "It's for when me memory goes," he would say.

There's no one source of our national character. It comes from our indigenous heritage, the struggles of the early settlers, the Federation period, and, of course, our nation's experiences at war. And ...

This week sees the 80th anniversary of cricket’s most bitter and acrimonious Test series, the infamous Bodyline series of 1932/33. Australia had won the 1930 Ashes series in England, with Don Bradman ...

The Bodyline scandal helped shape the nature of cricket, sport and relations between Australia and England for years to come As Australian batsman Bert Oldfield collapsed, his skull fractured by a ...

Few sporting events have caused such an international storm as the 1932-33 Ashes series which, at its nadir, not only threatened the tour itself but also political relations between the United Kingdom ...

England and Australia begin the latest edition of the Ashes in Perth on Friday with the visitors looking to wrestle back the urn for the first time since 2015. AFP Sport looks at five of the most ...