Colin Salmon
Empire of Cricket (2009)
Season 1
Series telling the story of cricket from exploring the colonial links of the game to situations of sporting apartheid. There are interviews with famous cricketers such as Ian Botham, Graham Gooch, Nasser Hussain and Viv Richards.
Released May 31, 2009
Episode 60 min
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Genres: Documentary, Sport
Keywords: tmdb.cricket, tmdb.sports-documentary, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.cricket-the-sport, imdb.cricketer, imdb.test-cricket, imdb.english + 5 more, imdb.sports-history, imdb.professional-sports, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.archive-footage, imdb.retrospective
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - England
A look at how the English invented cricket and exported it to the wider British Empire.
May 31, 2009, midnight
S1E2 - West Indies
The story of the development of cricket in the West Indies.
June 7, 2009, midnight
S1E3 - Australia
How Australia got the best cricket team in the world. Interviewees include Shane Warne.
June 14, 2009, midnight
S1E4 - India
The story of the Indian game, from its beginnings as the sport of the English colonisers to the riches and razzmatazz of today's Indian Premier League.
Includes interviews with cricketers Kapil Dev, Bishan Bedi, Farokh Engineer, Sachin Tendulkar, Madan Lal, Michael Holding and Shane Warne.
June 21, 2009, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: May 31, 2009
Last Air Date: June 21, 2009, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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