![]() ![]() Asked in Death of a Gentleman what representing Australia was like, opener Ed Cowan refers to it as “beyond pleasure”. “It’s about what you learn over those five long days… It’s a test of your courage and a test of your intelligence.”Īnd the players in these documentaries feel the same way. “It’s not just about cricket,” he proposes. ![]() Narrating The Edge (Apple TV+), actor Toby Jones points to the game’s global importance: “Test cricket was born on a field in England, is a way of life in Australia, a religion in Asia, and it’s in the soul of the Caribbean.” And Steven Riley’s memorable Fire in Babylon (Stan, DocPlay) beautifully conveys how it gave West Indies’ players and their supporters a way of challenging their colonial oppressors.įor narrator Sam Collins, who also co-directed Death of a Gentleman with Australians Jarrod Kimber and Johnny Blank, a Test match has a further significance. “You can’t talk about cricket without talking about the values behind it,” he says, “The whole idea of fair play.” At the start of Death of a Gentleman (DocPlay), for example, the Reverend Andrew Wingfield Digby neatly summarises its moral imperative. Their passion is also endorsed in most of the cricket documentaries currently streaming Down Under. ![]()
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