Bodyline
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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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Hugo Weaving
Douglas Jardine
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George Ogilvie Director · Carl Schultz Director Lex Marinos Director
Director Writer
George Ogilvie
Director
Carl Schultz
Director
Lex Marinos
Writer
Terry Hayes
Writer
George Miller
Executive producer
Doug Mitchell
Executive producer
Byron Kennedy
Composer
Chris Neal
Cinematographer
Dean Semler
Editor
Richard Francis-Bruce
Editor
David Stiven
Production designer
Owen Williams
Costume designer
Robyn Richards
Total runtime 5h 15m · Episode length 45 min · Type Miniseries
Show info
Premiered
July 16, 1984
Status
Ended
Network
10
Country
Australia
Type
Miniseries
Episode length
45 min
Total runtime
5h 15m
Original language
English
Production
Kennedy Miller Productions
Production
Australia
Produced in
Languages
Spoken on screen
English
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