Jardine leaves early twice

By Brian Sanderson

Whilst looking through  the Wisden magazines for 1979 .I found
 article on the England tour to Australia in 1928-29. The
 photograph above is of Douglas Jardine catching Jack Ryder in
 the First Test in the series.

England won by 675 runs and four Tests to one.

A month later Jardine was playing at Bendigo .A umpire called
 Pearce was honoured with a job of umpiring in this match. He 

was standing at square leg when Jardine hit the ball in his
 direction.It came to him so temptingly (says Reuter message)
 that he could not resist its appeal and recovering for a second
 the not resist its appeal and recovering for a second the
 spirit of his former playing days ,he shot out his arm
 and caught it.

The Cricket Association would not accept his plea that he was
carried away by the picnic spirit in which the match was played.
and suspended Pearce from umpiring.

In the Final Test match with England wining the series 4-0.
Jardine  out was for a duck in England's second innings and did
not field in the Australian second innings.It was reported that
Jardine left in the afternoon by train to Adelaide ,where he
embarked for India. Chapman acted as substitute fielder.
The match went on for two more days and Australia won
by five wickets.

Jardine then when on to captain England. What would the
press today make of these incidents.