History of the England cricket team to 1939 3 on the first morning before losing a competitive match when they were bowled out for 187 chasing 346. Before the 1932-3 tour to Australia, England had become used to the prolific run-scoring of Don Bradman. The England captain, Surrey's Douglas Jardine chose to develop the already existing leg theory into fast leg theory, or bodyline, as a tactic to stop Bradman. Fast leg theory involved bowling fast balls directly at the batsman's body, and Jardine had two very fast accurate bowlers, Harold Larwood and Bill Voce to bowl them. The batsman would need to defend himself, and if he
Holden Bowler like about him, I made up." At the beginning of World War II Bowler left singing and enlisted in the Army, where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. Bowler was promoted to the rank of captain before the D-Day landings and served in the section responsible for coordinating the logistics of the attack. After D-Day, he "oversaw all German and Italian Prisoners of War brought to England." While in England, he also met Ann Marion Childs, whom he married in 1945; the two went on to have four children. After the war, Bowler stayed in the United States Army