Umpiring in the 1946–47 Ashes series out. One English pressman wrote that this was Bodyline, to the anger of Vic Richardson, Alan Kippax and Clarrie Grimmett who had seen the real thing. Clif Cary wrote that "the placements were sufficient to cause the batsmen worry, although they did not justify one journalist describing the attack as "bodyline" to lend colour and expression to his cable". The England bowler Bill Voce and the reporter Bill Bowes did not comment on the matter, but Harold Larwood said that Bodyline was less dangerous as the batsman knew what to expect - bouncers on the leg-stump - but here they
Thomas Bowler (RAF officer) in England and the Middle East. He started his service in the Second World War as a wing commander, ending the war as an air commodore. He was promoted to air-vice marshal in 1947. Bowler was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 7 June 1951, having retired from the Royal Air Force two months earlier. Thomas Bowler (RAF officer) Air-Vice Marshal Thomas Geoffrey Bowler (1 March 1895 – 5 September 1974) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. Bowler was educated at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire. He joined the British Army at the outbreak of the