A left-arm medium-pace seamer, Toshack was a member of Bradman's first-choice team and he played in the first four Tests before being struck down by a persistent knee injury.[1][2][3][4] Toshack contained the English batsmen using leg theory in between the new ball bursts of Miller and Lindwall,[2] usually bowling second change after Miller, Lindwall and Johnston.[19][20][21][22] The English press decried Toshack's style of bowling as negative, but Jack Fingleton said that "he is generally so close to the stumps that nearly every ball has to be played".[6]