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Bodyline
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.
Seasons
- Season 1 — 7 episodes (July 16, 1984)
Cast
- Hugo Weaving as Douglas Jardine
- Gary Sweet as Donald Bradman
- Jim Holt as Harold Larwood
- Rhys McConnochie as Pelham Warner
- John Gregg as Percy George Fender
- Heather Mitchell as Edith
- Frank Thring as Lord Harris
- Max Cullen as Clive 'Chooka' Cooper (Reporter)
- John Walton as Bill Woodfull
- Ashok Banthia as Nawab of Pataudi
- Alan David Lee as Eddie Paynter
- Bill Young as Bill Bowes
Details
- First aired
- July 16, 1984
- Episodes
- 7
- Genres
- Drama
- Network
- 10
- Status
- Ended
- TMDB score
- 7.6 / 10 from 7 votes
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