#plum warner

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Adelaide Test 1933 — Woodfull, Warner and the 'Two Teams' Line

Australia v England

1933-01-14

On 14 January 1933 a Larwood bouncer felled Australian captain Bill Woodfull over the heart, the crowd nearly came over the fence, and that evening MCC manager Pelham Warner walked into the home dressing room to be told, 'There are two teams out there. One is trying to play cricket, the other is not.' The exchange leaked, the Adelaide Test became the diplomatic flashpoint of Bodyline, and the most famous sentence in Anglo-Australian cricket entered the language.

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⭐Moderate

Plum Warner — First MCC Tour Captain to Australia, 1903-04

England, Australia

1904-03-05

Pelham 'Plum' Warner captained the first MCC-organised tour to Australia in 1903-04, regaining the Ashes 3-2 — England's first Ashes series win since 1896. Warner's selection was controversial (Archie MacLaren refused to tour because of it), but the campaign produced R.E. Foster's 287, Bosanquet's googly debut and Warner's own bestselling book 'How We Recovered The Ashes'.

#plum-warner#mcc#england

⭐Serious

R.E. Foster's 287 on Test Debut — Sydney 1903

England, Australia

1903-12-11

Reginald Erskine 'Tip' Foster scored 287 on Test debut at Sydney in December 1903, then the highest individual score in Test cricket. It remained a world record until 1930 and is still the highest score by any Test debutant. Foster's epic dragged England, captained by Plum Warner, from 73 for 3 to a first innings of 577 and the platform for an Ashes-winning campaign.

#re-foster#tip-foster#england

⭐Mild

Pelham 'Plum' Warner — Founder of the MCC Tour Tradition, 1900s

MCC, Middlesex, England

1903-12-11

Pelham 'Plum' Warner, the Trinidad-born Oxford-educated Middlesex amateur, captained the first MCC team to tour Australia under the club's name in 1903-04 and won that series 3-2. The tour established the convention that English overseas tours were thereafter MCC enterprises rather than private commercial ventures, an institutional change in international cricket whose effects lasted until 1977.

#plum-warner#mcc#middlesex