Australia's captain, despite taking a bouncer to the heart and seeing many of his players suffer horrific blows, steadfastly refused to retaliate by employing Bodyline tactics on the English batsmen.
Scott, telling a story about his Lakers teammate A. C. Green, who was a born-again Christian and refused to retaliate, said: "We pulled him over and said: 'Look, A. C., this is the deal.
Dr Sigman may well be right but rather intriguingly Völler proved the exception to the rule by refusing to retaliate in any way, aggressively or otherwise, bearing his multiple punishments and degradations at the hands of both referee and opponent with a stoicism that bordered on the truly heroic.
Aside from refusing to retaliate against bodyline, Woodfull refused to exploit loopholes to dismiss batsmen.
The woman kept on insulting them but the Poles refused to retaliate.
The Australian public and cricket community abhorred the tactic, but Woodfull refused to retaliate or complain publicly, despite some of his players wanting to do so.
Umpire George Hele, who officiated the match said: Australia's captain Woodfull refused to retaliate and England made 524 in reply, McCabe having Jardine caught behind for 27 to end with 1/42.
After the first Test, which Australia lost heavily, Woodfull was not confirmed as captain until just before the start of the next match, prompting speculation that the Australian Board of Control might remove him for refusing to retaliate.
Despite their refusal to retaliate, over 150 students were eventually arrested for refusing to vacate store lunch counters when ordered to do so by police.
He not only refused to (openly) retaliate against Obama's ouster this week of Russian diplomat and spies, but he went so far as to invite the children of U.S. officials in Moscow to a Christmas/New Year's party at the Kremlin.
