14 Shameful incidents that disgraced the game of cricket

2. Bodyline series:

This series is epitomized as a blot on the face of the English cricketers who played the Ashes 1932/33. The Bodyline theory was put into force by the English skipper Douglas Jardine to stop Don Bradman from piling up big runs and in it the bowlers targeted the batsman’s body, on the line of the leg stump. It dented the spirit and was regarded as physically threatening up to an extent that the virtues and ideals of the Gentlemen’s game were sacrificed for winning. Later, several Laws of Cricket were changed to prevent this bizarre tactic from being repeated.