Documentary about the heyday of the West Indies cricket side of the 1970s and 80s. It has detailed insights, but more interviews than match footage
The second cricket documentary in a couple of weeks examines a subject slightly less familar to UK audiences, perhaps, than the Botham-powered From the Ashes. Here we are enlightened as to the backstory behind the "blackwash" – how the West Indies assembled their fearsome pace attack under the leadership of Clive Lloyd in the mid-70s, and went on to obliterate all comers for some 15 years, including that famous 5-0 thrashing of England in 1984. The battering they got in Australia in 1976 is revealed as the turning point; though hampered a little by a paucity of match footage, forthright interviews with the key performers – Viv Richards, Colin Croft, Andy Roberts, Lloyd himself – provide detailed insight, harnessing the rising tide of the 70s black power movement to engineer...
The second cricket documentary in a couple of weeks examines a subject slightly less familar to UK audiences, perhaps, than the Botham-powered From the Ashes. Here we are enlightened as to the backstory behind the "blackwash" – how the West Indies assembled their fearsome pace attack under the leadership of Clive Lloyd in the mid-70s, and went on to obliterate all comers for some 15 years, including that famous 5-0 thrashing of England in 1984. The battering they got in Australia in 1976 is revealed as the turning point; though hampered a little by a paucity of match footage, forthright interviews with the key performers – Viv Richards, Colin Croft, Andy Roberts, Lloyd himself – provide detailed insight, harnessing the rising tide of the 70s black power movement to engineer...
- 5/19/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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- 5/12/2011
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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