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Marion Stell, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, The University of Queensland

Revealed: how women cricketers mended Australia's relationship with Britain after Bodyline

Middle-order Australian batter Amy Hudson executes a perfect cut shot in 1934. National Museum of Australia

To combat the prodigious run scoring of Australian batting legend Don Bradman, the captain of the visiting English cricket team, Douglas Jardine, instructed his four fast bowlers to bowl at the man not the wicket in the summer of 1932-33.

Australian batsmen had a choice – get hit or get out. The English team returned home with the Ashes.

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