Bodyline

Overview

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.

Cast

Hugo Weaving

Douglas Jardine

Gary Sweet

Donald Bradman

Jim Holt

Harold Larwood

Rhys McConnochie

Pelham Warner

John Gregg

Percy George Fender

Heather Mitchell

Edith

Frank Thring

Lord Harris

Max Cullen

Clive 'Chooka' Cooper (Reporter)

John Walton

Bill Woodfull

Ashok Banthia

Nawab of Pataudi