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Bodyline


 

Bodyline, also known as Fast Leg Theory, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman. Bodyline bowlers deliberately aimed the cricket ball at the bodies of batsmen, in the hope of creating legside deflections which could be caught by one of several fielders located in the quadrant of the field behind square leg.

Reference

  • Frith, David (2002). Bodyline Autopsy. ABC Books. ISBN 0-7333-1321-3.
  • Alan Gibson (1988). The Cricket Captains of England. The Pavilion Library. ISBN 1-85145-395-4
  • Paul Wheeler (1983). Bodyline: The Novel. Faber and Faber
  • Bodyline: It's Just Not Cricket IMDB entry