Jardine 's first experience against Australia came when his Oxford University team played against the 1921 Australian touring side . In the second innings , Jardine was 96 not out when the game ended , having batted his team to safety . The tourists was criticised in the press for not allowing Jardine to reach his hundred , but they had tried to help him with some easy bowling . There have been speculation that this incident helped develop Jardine 's antipathy towards Australians , although Christopher Douglas deny this . Cricket historian David Frith believed it is possible that the abrasive Australian captain Warwick Armstrong could have addressed sarcastic comments to Jardine but Wisden believed his slow approach cost him his century .