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Short-pitched fast bowling as in 1932/33 controversy
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bodyline
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Bodyline is an Australian 1984 television miniseries which dramatised the events of the 1932–1933 English Ashes cricket tour of Australia . The title refers to the bodyline cricketing tactic (also known as fast leg theory ) devised by the English cricket ...
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a. (context cricket now historical English) Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket. n. 1 (alternative form of body line English) 2 ...
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Over decades Gonzales would carry the memories of that day: shadowed silhouettes of her face and bodyline of a jaw, taut curve of an arm and swell of breastagainst the flicker of light on a white wall and smells and tastes and tactile sensations Awakened by the slant of late afternoon light across his face, Gonzales got up from the bed where Lizzie still lay sleeping.