Jofra Archer’s duel with Steve Smith a blend of exhilaration and fear | Richard Williams

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The physical threat posed by a fast bowler is a legitimate aspect of cricket and this was an elevated example of a hallowed genre

While mulling over England’s tactics for what would go down in history as the Bodyline series, Douglas Jardine watched a newsreel of Donald Bradman, his side’s principal adversary, batting at the Oval in 1930. What particularly caught his eye was an incident in which a short ball from Harold Larwood hit the Australia hero on the chest. Examining it again and again, Jardine thought he saw Bradman flinch as the delivery bore down on him at high speed. His daughter remembered his comment.

 

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