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If you like to watch cricket then this is a show for you.
An excellent Australian mini series that could do with being repeated and repeated.
This series is not and never has been available on tape or dvd.
Based on True events.
The show is based upon a series of cricket matches between England and Australia for the Ashes. Played in Australia between 1932-1933.
The Australians were the top team of the times and England just were not good enough to beat them, that is until they made a certain Douglas Jardine the English captain.
He was the man for the time and he did the unthinkable. He brought the ashes back to England and was hailed a hero.
He devised a style of bowling that the Australians did not like and indeed it was very dangerous and called Bodyline as the aim was to bowl at the body and not the stumps.
Some of the English bowlers even refused to bowl at the man. If this was the case they were dropped and another bowler used.
After returning from Australia and using Bodyline in England Mr Douglas Jardine was stripped of his captaincy and dropped from the English team never to play for England again.
Bodyline Bowling was then made illegal.
He was the man for the time and boy could English cricket do with him back.
score 10/10
mike-272 2 November 2002
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