Cricket Equipment � The Movies � Outside Edge

This made for TV movie was a massive comic hit in Britain, it did after all feature that most British of games � cricket � and who knew cricket equipment lent itself so well to comedy?

The movie's cast

Judging by the success of this 1982 TV series following the highs and lows of a Saturday Social Club grappling with cricket equipment and each other - it could well have been turned into a hit Brit movie.

The cast is certainly starry enough for the UK featuring some of the country's best loved actors. Paul Eddington, Leslie Ash, Maureen Lipman and Prunella Scales are just a handful of great British character actors who starred in the show. Cricket equipment in the hands of these talented actors from TV and the movies is bound to add up to a hit comedy drama.

The plot

Directed by Kevin Billington and written by Richard Harris, the movie follows the premise of a misguided captain (Paul Eddington) who doesn't realise his greatest team asset isn't the cricket equipment his team plays with but Miriam (Prunella Scales) who makes fantastic cricket teas.

The movie is a delightful and humorous expose of the social game as opposed to the professionals who handle cricket equipment for a living. Set in England on a Saturday morning, it is a subtle, funny and charming look at the Saturday social sport.

The remake

It began as a stage play that won multiple awards for its author Richard Harris, and was such a success that after the TV movie, it was remade some ten years later. This version also featured major names from the British movies battling with their cricket equipment, including Oscar-nominated Brenda Blethyn.

It's just not cricket

Once more, the white-flannelled protagonists are battling more between each other than with the cricket equipment, with the principal focus being marital harmony � or lack of it! The famous British phrase, �It's just not cricket' says a lot about the stiff-upper lip and repression that the game famously represents. And the script belongs alongside the Oscar-nominated movies for its use of pregnant pauses, sly asides and awkwardness that captures a repressed middle England , who could probably do some real emotional damage with their cricket equipment.

Cricket equipment or emotional weaponry

For Captain Roger, his cricket equipment may as well be weapons of mass destruction � in the movie he plans his campaigns like a military director. As a result his team fight among themselves, hold out for the batting positions of their choice and run each other out while at the wicket.

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