Through the pattern of this film a ‘Test’ at Lord’s runs like a thread and a broadcast commentary on the match is imposed on the background of cricket as a game, a craft, an interest of a people, a piece of history. The craftsmen are shown who make the ball and the bat–that ‘fourth straight stick’ with which the batsmen defend ‘the other three’. The craftsmen are shown who play the game, from W. G. Grace in the ‘nets’ to D. G. Bradman and Denis Compton in the thread of the ‘Test’. The history of the game is epitomized in the Long Room shots at Lord’s and from there the camera moves to the village green; to the London side- street where the urchins play on a ‘bumping pitch’; to South Africa, and India, where in the ‘blinding light’ there is often ‘an hour to play and the last man in.
Release Date: November 18, 1950
July 17, 2017
November 09, 2018
April 16, 2018
May 09, 2022
March 22, 1895
April 27, 2016
April 27, 2014
September 01, 2015
April 29, 1956
January 01, 2005
January 01, 1983
January 01, 1991
January 01, 1988
January 01, 1961
September 06, 1896
October 28, 1897
September 02, 1898
September 05, 1896
October 28, 1897
June 18, 1896