Bodyline S1E1

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Bodyline

Drama

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.

Date: 03/19/1984

Rating: 7.7

Cast: Hugo Weaving, Gary Sweet, Jim Holt, Rhys McConnochie, John Gregg, Heather Mitchell, Frank Thring, Max Cullen, John Walton, Ashok Banthia, Alan David Lee, Bill Young, Terry Bader, Richard Carter, Arthur Dignam, Jane Harders, John Clayton, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Julie Nihill, Vincent Ball, Peter Dahlsen, Nicholas Gledhill, Peter Gwynne, Peter Whitford, Bruce Myles, George Whaley, Paul Chubb, John Sheerin, Michael Winchester, Ned Manning, Michael O'Neill, Robert Giltinan, Laurie Moran, Leslie Dayman, Reg Gillam, Norman May, Brian McDermott, Bruce Stewart, Tim McKenzie, John Doyle

Hugo Weaving