#1934

7 incidents tagged

Bradman's Near-Fatal Peritonitis — End of the 1934 Tour

Australia

1934-09-25

Days after the 1934 Oval Test, Bradman fell seriously ill with appendicitis that progressed to peritonitis. With antibiotics not yet available, he was given little chance of survival; his wife Jessie left Adelaide on a sea voyage to England prepared for the worst. He recovered after weeks of intensive nursing in a London nursing home and returned to first-class cricket the following Australian summer.

#don-bradman#1934#england

🔥Serious

Jardine Stands Down — March 1934

England

1934-03-21

On 21 March 1934 Douglas Jardine wrote to The Cricketer that he had 'neither the desire nor the intention' of playing in the upcoming home Ashes series. The announcement, taken as a quiet resignation, removed the architect of Bodyline from the field before Australia returned to England — a precondition Australia's Board had implicitly demanded.

#douglas-jardine#1934#resignation

⭐Moderate

Frank Woolley's Final Test — The Oval, August 1934

England v Australia

1934-08-25

Recalled at the age of 47 for England's final Ashes Test in 1934 after a six-year Test absence, Frank Woolley made 4 and 0 and was bypassed for the squads that followed. The Oval Test marked the end of one of cricket's most graceful and prolific careers — 64 Tests, 58,969 first-class runs, all of them lit by what John Arlott later called 'a cool, almost insolent grace'.

#frank-woolley#1934#ashes

⭐Serious

Verity's 14 in a Day at Lord's — England Beat Australia, 1934

England v Australia

1934-06-25

On the third and final day at Lord's in June 1934, Hedley Verity took 14 Australian wickets for 80 runs — the most by any bowler in a single day's Test cricket. Match figures of 15 for 104 gave England an innings victory, their only Lord's Ashes win of the entire 20th century. Bradman fell to him twice. The pitch had been rained on overnight; Verity's slow left-arm did the rest.

#hedley-verity#ashes#1934

⭐Serious

Ranji Trophy Founded — India's National Championship, 1934-35

Indian first-class teams

1934-07-10

On 10 July 1934 the Indian Cricket Control Board, meeting at Simla, voted to inaugurate a national first-class championship in memory of KS Ranjitsinhji, who had died in April 1933. The first 'Cricket Championship of India' — known almost immediately as the Ranji Trophy — was contested in 1934-35 with 15 teams; Bombay won it, beating Northern India in the final at Bombay Gymkhana. The trophy itself, a gold cup donated by the Maharaja of Patiala, modelled the structure of Indian first-class cricket for the next nine decades.

#india#ranji-trophy#1934

⭐Serious

Bradman's 304 at Headingley — Second Triple, 1934

England v Australia

1934-07-21

Four years after his 334 on the same ground, Don Bradman returned to Headingley in July 1934 and made another triple — 304 in 430 minutes, sharing a then world-record fourth-wicket stand of 388 with Bill Ponsford. The Test was drawn, but the partnership was the high mark of the 1934 Ashes and proof that Yorkshire's Test wicket could be Bradman's personal property.

#don-bradman#ashes#1934

⭐Serious

Ponsford's 266 at The Oval — Last Test, 1934

England v Australia

1934-08-18

Bill Ponsford's last Test innings was 266 at The Oval in August 1934, in a 451-run second-wicket stand with Don Bradman that won the Ashes for Australia and broke a world record that stood for 57 years. He walked off, raised his bat to a packed Oval, and retired from international cricket at 34.

#bill-ponsford#ashes#1934