Cricket

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Ralph Richardson

Narrator(voice)

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John Arlott

Narrator(voice)

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Peter Baylis
Directing	Director	Grahame Tharp
Writing	Screenplay	Jack Howells
Crew	Cinematography	George Stevens
	Technical Supervisor	John Arlott
Editing	Editor	Alex Milner-Gardner
Sound	Sound	William S. Bland George Newberry
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