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England's cricketers: The Bodyline Tour

It was conceived by a Scot, executed most lethally by a Nottingham miner, and almost destroyed relations between England and Australia.

It was conceived by a Scot, executed most lethally by a Nottingham miner, and almost destroyed relations between England and Australia. In the UK it was called Leg Theory, but a whinging Aussie cricket hack christened it Bodyline, and this stuck.