Five years before Bodyline

Bodyline

Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman...

, top of the averages in the 1927 English cricket season were Douglas Jardine and Harold Larwood. The season is notable for being the last one to date in which there was no Test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 series, apart from the years of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 and 1970

1970 English cricket season

The 1970 English cricket season was marked by controversy when a tour by South Africa was forced to be abandoned in view of mounting opposition to the apartheid policy maintained by that country's then government...

 (when the abandoned South African

South African cricket team

The South African national cricket team represent South Africa in international cricket. They are administrated by Cricket South Africa.South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council, also known as ICC, with Test and One Day International, or ODI, status...

 tour was replaced by five matches between England and the Rest of the World).

Honours

• County Championship - Lancashire
• Minor Counties Championship - Staffordshire
• Wisden Cricketers of the Year
  Wisden Cricketers of the Year
  The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season"...
  
  , named in the 1928 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
  Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
  Wisden Cricketers' Almanack is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom...
  
   – Roger Blunt
  Roger Blunt
  Roger Charles Blunt played nine Tests for New Zealand....
  
  , Charlie Hallows
  Charlie Hallows
  Charles Hallows was a cricketer who played for Lancashire and England....
  
  , Walter Hammond, Douglas Jardine
  Douglas Jardine
  Douglas Robert Jardine was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933–34.When describing cricket seasons, the convention used is that a single year represents an English cricket season, while two years represent a southern hemisphere cricket season because it...
  
  , Vallance Jupp
  Vallance Jupp
  Vallance William Crisp Jupp was an amateur cricketer who played for Sussex and Northamptonshire...
  
  

External sources

• CricketArchive – season summary