What do you think would make a good cricket movie?

[sohummisra]

Hmm yeah, I already knew it would be crap when it released. Never saw that.

DVD library.

 

[adharcric]

It wasn't that realistic--an Indian (deaf as well) making it to the national cricket team on the basis of pure hard work? No way, you need connections! Well, I guess he did have connections with his coach.

Munaf? Except Munaf isn't impaired; he just can't run for ****.

 

[The_Bunny]

Sir Donald Bradman
I dont think there is much point in having a bodyline tour movie as it would be 60% about the Don anyway.

Shane Warne
^ About 3 differant movies there

Irelands trip to the WC

And the 2005 Ashes

 

[sohummisra]

Munaf? Except Munaf isn't impaired; he just can't run for ****.

Munaf is probably secretly about 50 years old. That could make a movie.

 

[Craig]

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No. Its not 300 with 78 less spartans, its Nathan Astle munting up Poms with his meat-axe. Rated R - arousal is guaranteed

or

Nash, Hart & Fleming do South Africa
Stoner film with cricket players.

Skull?

 

[Richard]

Well for that kind of story it's really has to go to Ireland.

Not really - Kenya's was far more film-worthy than Ireland's. Ireland's amounts to "a few Aussies went to a foreign land and played cricket". Kenya's, as TdL explained, was really classic stuff, most of all the bit about Aasif Karim.

For BD vs Aus they could do a story around ricky ponting etc call out to strip BD their test status or something and then the climax would be the match.

Would have to reverse historical events if they wanted to do that.

 

[sideshowtim]

Sir Donald Bradman
I dont think there is much point in having a bodyline tour movie as it would be 60% about the Don anyway.

There already is a movie about Bodyline. A mini-series anyway.

A Bradman film is most likely and it would be a rather interesting one. It could explore things that aren't touched in discussion of him so much such as his reported discrimination of Catholics in the cricket team.

 

[LA ICE-E]

Not really - Kenya's was far more film-worthy than Ireland's. Ireland's amounts to "a few Aussies went to a foreign land and played cricket". Kenya's, as TdL explained, was really classic stuff, most of all the bit about Aasif Karim.

Would have to reverse historical events if they wanted to do that.

No way, There's like 4 foreigners and all of them are like based there for a long time and you could think of them as Irish too kind of as in people from Ireland...plus 4 is not a big number, England has/had it's fair share with foreigners and so did so many other teams. that's really discrediting Ireland is all you're doing right there.

 

[Richard]

There is nothing interesting about the Ireland story, really - because the only remote element of adventure is the Aussies moving over. Other than that, it's just a few Irish lads playing a game that's not especially popular.

In Kenya, it was kids learning the game with maize-cob balls at the start, a whole host of stuff in between, and the most incredible climax as (as TdL puts it) "a forgotten old-timer returns from his job in insurance to torment the mighty Aussies with his left-arm slows".

 

[Perm]

Skull?

Yes IMO. Yes.

 

[sohummisra]

There is nothing interesting about the Ireland story, really - because the only remote element of adventure is the Aussies moving over. Other than that, it's just a few Irish lads playing a game that's not especially popular.

In Kenya, it was kids learning the game with maize-cob balls at the start, a whole host of stuff in between, and the most incredible climax as (as TdL puts it) "a forgotten old-timer returns from his job in insurance to torment the mighty Aussies with his left-arm slows".

Also, just the fact that Kenya were far more competitive than the Irish in that cup. Or at least, that was the impression I got. They looked capable of beating the big sides almost every day they played, which is why they got the semifinal berth. Unlike Ireland--who looked really good a few days and looked like the minnow side they were on most other days.

 

[Craig]

Life of Bob Woolmer?

Wouldn't mind seeing on Aboriginal fast bowler Eddie Gilbert who once got Bradman for a first ball duck in the 1930s, who grew up in a mission camp in Queensland and IIRC died in a mental asylum in Brisbane in the early 70's. I think you can definatly say it was the race card that prevented him from getting a Baggy Green (remember it would be more then 30 years later before Aborigines had the right to vote).

 

[NZTailender]

Bothams Ashes? The two tied tests?

 

[Richard]

Also, just the fact that Kenya were far more competitive than the Irish in that cup. Or at least, that was the impression I got. They looked capable of beating the big sides almost every day they played, which is why they got the semifinal berth. Unlike Ireland--who looked really good a few days and looked like the minnow side they were on most other days.

Yeah, that too. Kenya only had 2 notable wins (SL who had food-poisoning and Zim who were afflicted by madness - never better exemplified than when Flower and Blignaut dashed for the same end) but they had 2 or 3 other games where they played like a genuine ODI team who could and did compete well.

 

[pasag]

Wouldn't mind seeing on Aboriginal fast bowler Eddie Gilbert who once got Bradman for a first ball duck in the 1930s, who grew up in a mission camp in Queensland and IIRC died in a mental asylum in Brisbane in the early 70's. I think you can definatly say it was the race card that prevented him from getting a Baggy Green (remember it would be more then 30 years later before Aborigines had the right to vote).

Get Nick Cave to direct it and you've got a deal.

 

[Perm]

Bothams Ashes? The two tied tests?

I still don't think that an actual cricket match or series would make a very good movie unless there was a whole heap of off the field drama like there was during the Bodyline Tour.

 

[Richard]

Where Ian Botham's involved, off-field drama is rarely far away!

 

[Perm]

Where Ian Botham's involved, off-field drama is rarely far away!

I'm too young to remember Botham's Ashes but from what I have read there wasn't a great deal of off-field drama like there was during Bodyline. Certainly not enough to make a movie out of, unless the camera followed Botham around all the time and it was almost like a visual biography.

 

[Richard]

Wasn't being 100% serious, TBH - but Botham's career, if there was nothing particularly notable in 1981, had as much off-field drama as anyone's. The Life Of Botham would be a decent film, if a touch long.

 

[sideshowtim]

Get Nick Cave to direct it and you've got a deal.

Hahahaha