Warrior Trevor Bailey cared little for entertainment

Important cases: Trevor Bailey was ready to push the laws of cricket at the absolute limit Photo: ACTION pictures

Test Match Special listeners will remember Bailey as an avuncular figure with a twinkle in his voice. There were no illusions: it was really charming, but also constantly patient with journalists and authors who rang him to confidences of the past.

However, the gentleman Bailey is only one aspect of history. In his career, he was a ranch DOE - a man who cared little for sport buddy subtleties. "I've been a bad loser at an early age," he said. To avoid the pain of defeat, he would go so far to inflict real pain to someone else.

"I used to Bowl monitors quite deliberately," once he Jonathan Agnew for a release before to explain with some relish how he broke the hand of Vic Munden, Leicestershire in the 1950s, drummer with a fastball directly to his nose.

"Trevor was a tough," according to former Test Match Special producer Peter Baxter. "If a drummer with a broken finger, he said, Bowl in it." His attitude towards the game was not so devoid of Douglas Jardine. Had he been captain of England in 1932-1933, with this arsenal of pacemen, it would have certainly been during 'bodyline'. »

It is ironic that, as a regular comment box Bailey came to be associated with Victoria and year-round pipe smokers sponges. There were little comfortable or comfortable on his cricket career. Rather, it is mounted in a long tradition ruthless English pragmatists - a line that runs WG Grace, Jardine and Hussain Nasser.

All these men have been prepared to push the absolute limit laws. In fact, they often wound up changing laws in the process.

In the wake of "Bodyline" assault of the Jardine - involved a drummer of the chest and head - short-launched attack IPN was declared impossible against bullets which launched outside of the leg strain.

Bailey had a similar impact when saved at Headingley, England in 1953, bowling two shipyards on the side of the leg, as hounded Australia 177 in the last two hours. Shortly thereafter, it becomes illegal to place more than two fielders behind square on the side of the leg.

These controversies tend to separate the teams into two camps: not both enthusiasts and professionals, but riders and the roundheads.

Godfrey Evans the wicketkeeper has described as "a Falstaff cricket", was horrified by Bailey at Leeds actions. "The Australian", he writes, "were absolutely furious, and I think rightly so." They had been cheated of victory, they said, by the worst negative cricket. »

However, it would be wrong to say that Bailey - Jardine elsewhere - or indifferent on the set. Instead, they have treated more than the Romantics like Evans or Denis Compton, who are now regarded as icons of good sportsmanship.

Bailey and company, the best way to honour the gods of cricket was to engage your body and soul in the fight. For them, a Test match was a competition between two groups of warriors. Its entertainment value was almost irrelevant.

Hussain had its own "Bailey moment" in India in 2002, when he tried to contain Sachin Tendulkar setting 8-1 fields and telling Matthew Hoggard Bowl from a site outside the broadband strain. "What makes people waiting for us?" he wrote later. "He he just Sachin and then lob see slapping our inexperienced attack everywhere"?

No one could accuse take cricket slightly Hussain. He spent the morning before a game with his bat and difficulty eating handles. And here, there are echoes of Bailey, his predecessor Essex.

"Trevor was quite a stroppy FDA in its first years of cricket", former captain of Bailey, Doug sole internal and a bit of a rebel. He was a very intense character - we used to tease him about it in the locker room, and he gave her wine over the years.

English Cricket is often accused of softness, and it is true that many County players fight to maintain motivation. But for some, deep passions. England supporters should cherish these rare breeds. For the national team is at their best when they have a Jardine, a Bailey or a Hussain to rally around: sand in the oyster tesson.

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