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Bill Voce ( 8 August 1909, Annesley Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England - 6 June 1984, Lenton, Nottinghamshire) was an English cricket player. He played for the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and the English cricket team, and was an instrumental part of England's infamous Bodyline tour of Australia in 1932-1933.Voce was a left-arm fast bowler from a working class background in the coal-mining districts around Nottingham. His first-class cricket career began in 1927 with Nottinghamshire. In 1929 he was selected for the English tour of the West Indies and made his TestTest cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. It is regarded by players and serious fans as the ultimate test of playing ability (as compared to One-day International cricket). Test matches are played only between national representative teams debut in the first Test at BridgetownBridgetown population 5,928 ( 1990), is the capital of Barbados, and a major West Indies tourist resort. Sugar, rum, and molasses are the leading exports. Bridgetown is also an important financial center. The city was founded by the British in 1628. Capit, BarbadosBarbados is an island nation situated on the boundary of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. One of the Lesser Antilles, it lies to the east of the main chain of islands. History Main article: History of Barbados Barbados was uninhabited when first, on 11 January, 1930.
Folowing Australia'sThe Australian cricket team is today regarded as the dominant team in world cricket by Australians. They have an outstanding recent Test record and in the one day form of the game were World Champions in 1987, 1999 and 2003. They are considered to be almo tour of England in the summer of 1930, when Don Bradman scored freely against the English bowling, Voce was part of a meeting convened between future English captain Douglas JardineDouglas Jardine ( 23 October 1900, Bombay 18 June 1958, Montreux) was a British cricketer and captain of the controversial 1932-33 Bodyline tour of Australia. He captained the England side from 1931 to 1933-34. Born in India of Scottish parentage, Jardine and Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr to come up with a tactic to defeat Bradman and the Australians. Voce and his fellow Nottinghamshire fast bowler Harold Larwood agreed to a suggestion by Jardine that bowling fast rising balls into the batsmen's bodies, with several catching fielders on the leg side would be an effective tactic. Over the next two years, Voce and Larwood practised this modified form of leg theory for Nottinghamshire, causing severe problems for opposing batsmen.
For the 1932-1933 English tour of Australia, Larwood and Voce were both named in the side to be captained by Jardine. The bowlers implemented Jardine's tactic, bowling fast and short at the Australian batsmen, with Voce inflicting several bruising injuries. The Australian media dubbed the tactic Bodyline. This resulted in severe ill-feeling between the cricket teams, and the countries. (See Bodyline for details.)
Following the Bodyline series, Voce negotiated the minefield of political fallout within English cricket and continued playing for England both before and after the hiatus enforced by World War II. He was named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1933. He played his last Test match against Australia at Melbourne in 1947. Right up to his death in 1984, Voce was reluctant to discuss the Bodyline series.
Voce played 27 Test matches, scoring 308 runs at an average of 13.39, and taking 98 wickets at an average of 27.88.
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