In the summer of 1933 three men of Empire, the brilliant young Australian batsman Donald Bradman, the gentleman English captain Douglas Jardine and the English speed bowler Harold Larwood, met on a cricket pitch in Adelaide and almost tore that Empire apart.

They were the central figures in one of the most controversial sporting events of this century: the infamous "bodyline" test cricket series of 1932-33. It was a series which was to threaten the traditional ties between Australia and the "mother" country, rewrite the rules of cricket and give Australia a new national identity.

BODYLINE, one of the best loved and remembered television mini-series from Kennedy Miller stars Hugo Weaving as Douglas Jardine, Gary Sweet as Donald Bradman and Jim Holt as Harold Larwood and was directed by Carl Schultz, George Ogilvie, Denny Lawrence and Lex Marinos.

BODYLINE, about three men and "the war" which rocked the foundations of Empire, is another one of the GREAT AUSTRALIAN STORIES.

Synopsis

A 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 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.