Bodyline endures as the most emotive word in Test cricket. Seventy-five years this month, the England team led by Douglas Jardine and under the auspices of the Marylebone Cricket Club, arrived in Australia on the steamship, the SS Orontes. Over the ensuing six months Jardine's despised tactics not only threatened the future of Test cricket but even undermined the bonds of the British Empire. The ...
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