Product Description

It has often been said that you can best judge the quality of a sporting team by the talents of the players left out, and never has this been better illustrated than with ESPN's Legends of Cricket. There has been a vast array of excellent cricketers throughout history, which is of course no more evident than in the modern game. However, this fascinating series aims to pick out the very best of the bunch. A distinguished panel of 15 extremely highly regarded cricketing authorities, including Wasim Akram, Ian Botham, Allan Border and Dickie Bird, will aim to pick out histories very best. Featuring superb, action packed archive footage and in-depth interviews with the selected players, Legends of Cricket is a must have for all cricket enthusiasts. Cricketers featured; Len Hutton, WG Grace, Ian Botham, Wally Hammond, Sir Jacob Hobbs, Alan Border, Steve Waugh, Keith Miller, Dennis Lillee, Sir Donald Bradman, Shane Warne, Frank Worrell, George Headley, Malcolm Marshall, Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Garfield Sobers, Barry Richards, Graeme Pollock, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Wasim Akram and Imran Khan.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14043 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-11-03
• Rating: Exempt
• Formats: Box set, Black & White, Colour, Dolby, PAL
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 575 minutes

Synopsis
This programme celebrates the contribution of Australia, England, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and the West Indies throughout cricketing history, by hand-picking the best cricketers each country has produced. An elite panel of experts including Wasim Akram, Ian Botham, Allan Border and Dickie Bird, discuss their choices, further enhanced by fantastic archive footage. Each LEGENDS OF CRICKET programme also features interviews with that country's cricket heroes, including Steve Warne, Keith Miller, Dennis Lillee, Sir Donald Bradman, Len Hutton, WG Grace, Ian Botham, Wally Hammond, Sir Jacob Hobbs,Wasim Akram, Imran Khan, Barry Richards, Greg Chappell, Graeme Pollock, Frank Worrell, George Headley, Malcolm Marshall, Sir Vivian Richards and Sir Garfield Sobers.

Customer Reviews

The Bradman Game
I won't engage in prevarication/circumlocution. This is an excellent package; it does exactly what it says on the tin. I feel it's an essential for anyone interested in this fantastic sport.
Its greatest strength lies in the fact of its giving one a broadly-based view of the sport's finest practitioners, irrespective of the narrow confines of country, etc. To be sure, it focuses on the nations that have given cricket its finest hours but, once you have enjoyed the entire package, you realise that this sport transcends all petty national boundary lines. You become a fan of all the greats, whether Bradman and Miller or Hobbs and Hutton or Sobers, Lara, etc!
I recommend it highly.

Colm McElroy, Dublin, Ireland.

A must for cricket fans
I bought this as a present for my dad he loved it and I ended up watching most of it as well. A must for cricket fans.