At the height of the infamous Bodyline series in 1932-33, the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket sent the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the home of Lord’s, a cablegram:
Bodyline bowling assumed such proportions as to menace best interests of game, making protection of body by batsmen the main consideration.
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