Top 10 non-Indian movies featuring cricket

Because of its tremendous popularity in India, cricket attracts many movie directors and producers too, trying to capture the games glory and the fandom. In the last several years more than 15 movies based on cricket have already been made in Bollywood.Though cricket is the most loved and accepted concept in the Indian movies, few other countries have also produced some remarkable movies on cricket.Lets have a look at some non-Indian cricket movies which are well appreciated by both worldwide audiences and critics.

#10 The Lady Vanishes (1938)

• The comic thriller masterpiece from Alfred Hitchcock had featured some interesting prospects in which two of the central characters are obsessed with wanting to know the scores of a Test Match.

#9 I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2008)

• This movie is about a serial killer who sets out to kill members of a local cricket team using his razor sharp cricket glove and with some sharpened cricket stumps. Eventually this horror flick from Doug Turner received mixed to negative reviews.

#8 Hit for Six (2007)

This Barbadian movie shows how a West Indian Cricket player, once accused of match fixing, fights to play in an international tournament. In his operation, he also gains the respect of his father, a former actor. The movie features several West Indian cricket players like Tino Best, Everton Weeks, Wes Hall, Desmond Haynes etc.

#7 Playing Away (1987)

In this movie a cricket team in a small English village invites a team of West Indian heritage based in Brixton to mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration. This TV comedy film was well received by the audiences.

#6 Its not cricket (1949)

• A must watch comedy movie where the two main characters of this movie are intelligence officers in the British army. Being suspended from the Army Intelligence, they contrived to put up a private detective agency “Bright and Early". And so they both employ a secretary and one day her fiancee invites them all for a weekend in a cricket match.
• But what they don't recognize is that the cricket ball they buy in London actually contains a valuable stolen diamond which was pinched by the war criminal Otto Fisch, the rationality behind their removal from the Army. What occurs next? You should view the movie to know it better.

#5 Bodyline (1984)

As the title suggests this movie (TV series) was all about the 1932/33 Test cricket series played between England and Australia. One of the most famous cricket series where the Bodyline cricketing tactic used by the English cricket team against Australia gained world wide attention. Gary Sweet played the character of Donald Bradman.

#4 Hansie: A True Story (2008)

• The film is based on the genuine tale of former South African skipper Hansie Cronje who went from national hero to international disgrace after his engagement with Indian bookmakers. This film is all about Cronje’s life style after the 2000 match fixing scandal and the lead role was played by Frank Rautenbach.

#3 The Final Test (1953)

An excellent comedy drama about Sam Palmer’s last appearance for England. The movie shows that Various arragements were done for Sam's last match, but eventually Sam gets out for a duck.

The movie has also cameos from leading cricketers, including Len Hutton, Denis Compton and Alec Bedser.

#2 Wondrous Oblivion (2004)

• This film goes around around an Eleven-year-old son, David Wiseman, who is crazy about cricket but not so adept at it. His new neighbours (Jamaicans) are also cricket lovers and then they start preparing David. During this process, they became good friends and David falls in love with Dennis (the neighbour girl). But David's parents want to put an end to their son's friendship. But their love and affections towards cricket binds their friendship.

  Directed and written by Paul Morrison, the movie won awards at the Boston Jewish Film Festival in 2004 and the Giffoni Film Festival in 2003.

#1 Fire in Babylon (2010)

Simply a must watch documentary for all cricket lovers. This British documentary film is wholly about the record-breaking West Indies team of the 1970s and 1980s and it recounts the story that how West Indies became the most feared team on the planet.

It involves contribution from many great West Indian cricketers including Clive Lloyd, Sir Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge, Michale Holding, Andy Roberts, Joel Garner etc. Apart from them several great cricketers and commentators have also acted in this movie. The movie was penned and directed by Stevan Riley and won the UNESCO Award at the Jamaica Reggae Film Festival 2011.