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Although Jack Worrall claimed that he had invented the term " bodyline ", it is more likely that it was coined by Sydney journalist Hugh Buggy who worked for The Sun in 1932, and who happened to be a colleague of Jack Fingleton.

Buggy sent a telegram to his newspaper from the Test after a day's play.

As a substitute for " in the line of the body " he used the term " bodyline " to keep the cost down, and the new term quickly became established.