Editing Bodyline (section)

===Third Test match===
{{Main|Adelaide leak}}
The controversy reached its peak during the [[Third Test, 1932–33 Ashes series|Third Test]] at Adelaide. On the second day, a Saturday, before a crowd of 50,962 spectators,<ref name=ha346/><ref name="h73">Haigh and Frith, p. 73.</ref> Australia bowled out England who had batted through the first day. In the third over of the Australian innings, Larwood bowled to Woodfull. The fifth ball narrowly missed Woodfull's head and the final ball, delivered short on the line of [[Stump (cricket)#Part of the wicket|middle stump]], struck Woodfull over the heart. The batsman dropped his bat and staggered away holding his chest, bent over in pain. The England players surrounded Woodfull to offer sympathy but the crowd began to protest noisily. Jardine called to Larwood: "Well bowled, Harold!" Although the comment was aimed at unnerving Bradman, who was also batting at the time, Woodfull was appalled.<ref>Hamilton, p. 156.</ref><ref>Frith, p. 179.</ref> Play resumed after a brief delay, once it was certain the Australian captain was fit to carry on and, since Larwood's over had ended, Woodfull did not have to face the bowling of Allen in the next over. However, when Larwood was ready to bowl at Woodfull again, play was halted once more when the fielders were moved into bodyline positions, causing the crowd to protest and call abuse at the England team. Subsequently, Jardine claimed that Larwood requested a field change, Larwood said that Jardine had done so.<ref name=F180/> Many commentators condemned the alteration of the field as unsporting, and the angry spectators became extremely volatile.<ref name=F181>Frith, p. 181.</ref> Jardine, although writing that Woodfull could have [[Substitute (cricket)#Retired hurt (or not out)|retired hurt]] if he was unfit, later expressed his regret at making the field change at that moment.<ref name=F180>Frith, p. 180.</ref> The fury of the crowd was such that a riot might have occurred had another incident taken place and several writers suggested that the anger of the spectators was the culmination of feelings built up over the two months that bodyline had developed.<ref name="F181"/>

During the over, another rising Larwood delivery knocked the bat out of Woodfull's hands. He batted for 89 minutes, being hit a few more times before Allen bowled him for 22.<ref>Frith, p. 182.</ref> Later in the day, Pelham Warner, one of the England managers, visited the Australian dressing room. He expressed sympathy to Woodfull but was surprised by the Australian's response. According to Warner, Woodfull replied, "I don't want to see you, Mr Warner. There are two teams out there. One is trying to play cricket and the other is not."<ref name=F185>Frith, p. 185.</ref> Fingleton wrote that Woodfull had added, "This game is too good to be spoilt. It is time some people got out of it."<ref name=fingo>Fingleton (1947), p. 18.</ref> Woodfull was usually dignified and quietly spoken, making his reaction surprising to Warner and others present.<ref name=F185/><ref name=fingo17>Fingleton (1947), p. 17.</ref> Warner was so shaken that he was found in tears later that day in his hotel room.<ref>Hamilton, pp. 156–57.</ref>

There was no play on the following day, Sunday being a rest day, but on Monday morning, the exchange between Warner and Woodfull was reported in several Australian newspapers.<ref>Frith, p. 194.</ref> The players and officials were horrified that a sensitive private exchange had been reported to the press. [[News leak|Leaks]] to the press were practically unknown in 1933. David Frith notes that discretion and respect were highly prized and such a leak was "regarded as a moral offence of the first order."<ref name=F187>Frith, p. 187.</ref> Woodfull made it clear that he severely disapproved of the leak, and later wrote that he "always expected cricketers to do the right thing by their team-mates."<ref name=F188>Frith, p. 188.</ref><ref>Growden, p. 72.</ref> As the only full-time journalist in the Australian team, suspicion immediately fell on Fingleton, although as soon as the story was published, he told Woodfull he was not responsible. Warner offered Larwood a reward of one pound if he could dismiss Fingleton in the second innings; Larwood obliged by bowling him for a [[Duck (cricket)|duck]].<ref name=F188/><ref name="Hamilton, p. 157">Hamilton, p. 157.</ref> Fingleton later claimed that Sydney Sun reporter [[Claude Corbett]] had received the information from Bradman;<ref name="Fingleton">Fingleton (1981), p. 108.</ref> for the rest of their lives, Fingleton and Bradman made claim and counter-claim that the other man was responsible for the leak.<ref>Frith, pp. 187–92.</ref>

[[File:Bodyline 3rd Test Oldfield 02.jpg|left|thumb|Bert Oldfield staggers away with his skull fractured.]]
The following day, as Australia faced a large deficit on the first innings, [[Bert Oldfield]] played a long innings in support of [[Bill Ponsford]], who scored 85. In the course of the innings, the English bowlers used bodyline against him, and he faced several short-pitched deliveries but took several [[Boundary (cricket)|fours]] from Larwood to move to 41.<ref>Frith, pp. 194–96.</ref> Having just conceded a four, Larwood bowled fractionally shorter and slightly slower. Oldfield attempted to hook but lost sight of the ball and edged it onto his temple; the ball fractured his skull. Oldfield staggered away and fell to his knees and play stopped as Woodfull came onto the pitch and the angry crowd jeered and shouted, once more reaching the point where a riot seemed likely. Several English players thought about arming themselves with stumps should the crowd come onto the field.<ref name=Oldfield>Frith, pp. 196–98.</ref> The ball which injured Oldfield was bowled to a conventional, non-bodyline field;<ref>Frith, p. 200.</ref> Larwood immediately apologised but Oldfield said that it was his own fault before he was helped back to the dressing room and play continued.<ref name=Oldfield/>{{refn|As a result of the injuries in this game, the costs of insurance cover for players doubled.<ref>Frith and Haigh, p. 77.</ref>|group=notes|}} Jardine later secretly sent a telegram of sympathy to Oldfield's wife and arranged for presents to be given to his young daughters.<ref name="Frith, p. 201">Frith, p. 201.</ref>