Cast:Hugo Weaving, Gary Sweet, Jim Holt, Rhys McConnochie, John Gregg, Heather Mitchell, John Walton, Alan David Lee, Terry Bader, Ashok Banthia, Richard Carter, Peter Dahlsen, John Doyle, Mark Hope, Michael Jay, Bernard Ledger, Doug Middleton, Ron Stephenson, Bill Young, Les Dayman, Stewart Faichney, Robert Giltinan, Ross Hall, Scott Lowe, Ned Manning, Laurie Moran, Michael O'Neill, Peter Philpott, John Sheerin, Michael Winchester
Synopsis
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. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.
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