Drama / Sports / Historical
Australia,
1984, 7x45 min
Composer:
Chris NealCast:
Gary Sweet, Hugo Weaving, Vincent Ball, Nicholas Gledhill, Heather Mitchell, Frank Thring, Bruce Myles, Arthur Dignam, Tony Wager, Bill Young, Rhys Mcconnochie (more)Plots(1)
Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called 'leg theory', or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. (official distributor synopsis)
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