Piers Morgan tweets pic of his wounded rightwing backside (warning - pic)

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11. There's a long history about how hostile bowling should be

In the early 1930s, faced with the Australian Don Bradman, probably the best batsman the world has ever seen, the English team developed a style called 'bodyline', which meant bowling at the unprotected parts of the body (and back then, they had no helmets or body padding - only the leg pads), and positioning fielders to catch the balls they fended off with the bat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline

It was a diplomatic incident. Eventually a rule was inserted to change where you could put the fielders so that it wasn't so easy to get catches out of it. Ever since then, there's been controversy about how much it's OK to aim at the batsman, not the stumps. It's reckoned to be unfair to pepper inexperienced batsmen (or those who are specialist bowlers - they have to bat too) with dangerous balls. So I can see why Hadlee is saying Lee shouldn't have done this (see reply #8).