Controversies in 1921

4 incidents documented

Warwick Armstrong's 'Big Ship' Crew — Cricket's First Ashes Whitewash, 1920-21

Australia v England

1921-03-01

When Warwick Armstrong's Australians sealed the fifth Test on 1 March 1921, they had become the first side in cricket history to win an Ashes series 5-0. Captained from the front by the 22-stone all-rounder nicknamed 'The Big Ship', a side rebuilding from the Great War crushed Johnny Douglas's England in every match of a series that would not be matched in scale until Ricky Ponting's team in 2006-07.

#ashes#australia#england

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Lionel Tennyson Bats with One Hand — Headingley Ashes, 1921

England v Australia

1921-07-04

Captaining England in only his second Test, the Honourable Lionel Tennyson split his left hand fielding a Macartney drive, returned the next day to bat virtually one-handed, and made 63 and 36 against the Gregory-McDonald attack — an act of leadership remembered for a century as one of the bravest innings ever played by an England captain.

#lionel-tennyson#ashes#1921

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Gregory and McDonald — The Pace Pair Who Broke England, 1921

Australia v England

1921-08-15

Through the summer of 1921 Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald operated as the most feared new-ball pair the world had yet seen. Together they took 46 wickets in the five Tests as Warwick Armstrong's Australians won the series 3-0, and inspired a decade of English broadcasting and journalism that would obsess about pace until Larwood's Bodyline answer arrived ten years later.

#jack-gregory#ted-mcdonald#pace-bowling

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Charlie Macartney's 345 in Under Four Hours — Trent Bridge, 1921

Australians v Nottinghamshire

1921-06-25

Between lunch on a June Saturday and tea on the Monday after, Charlie Macartney made 345 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge — for almost two decades a world record for runs scored by a batsman in a single day, and an innings that announced the man Sydneysiders called the 'Governor-General' to the wider cricket world.

#charlie-macartney#australia#1921