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The Test, Season Three

The human comedy of Ashes cricket
Amazon Prime
by
ABR Arts 28 May 2024

The Test, Season Three

The human comedy of Ashes cricket
Amazon Prime
by
ABR Arts 28 May 2024
Australian Cricket Team (Amazon Prime)
Australian Cricket Team (Amazon Prime)

The cricket-lover knows that a Test match – let alone a Test series – lasts long enough for the full sweep of human comedy to be on show. Ambition; petulance; perfection all too fleeting; horrible failure; hilarious pratfalls; selflessness and honour: it’s all in a day – or in five day’s play. Test cricket has so many inbuilt dramatic elements – a recurring cast of twenty-two characters, a series of acts-slash-matches, scene-stealing stars, bit parts, bitter rivalries and long-held grudges – that the real mystery is why no one thought to lavish the full documentary treatment upon it until The Test, Amazon Prime’s high-profile series about the Australian men’s Test team, now in its third season.

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