England their England The cricket match TV Movie BBC

I have it on a Video recording my father made for Me. Great film

Yes I can remember seeing the film all those years ago and have been looking for it since internet was invented.
Scottish soldier - gets a job at fleets street because he tells interviewer he can play - which is on the next day
Bus trip to some county village to play against the locals - calls in all the other local villages to get a drink and have a pit stop.
Star player is the local blacksmith - can remember the pitch had a steep slope at one end where you can just see the bowler on his last few steps.
The blacksmith has a run up so long he eventually goes so far back he ends up in the local pub and gets is plied by the fleet street team and the team of writers wins the match.
Good reflection of how a Scot would see the English, cricket , Drinking and all.
Tremendous movie - good narrative in the background - would love to see it again.....
Alan

Can you send me a copy of the England Their England film? DVD? VHS? Price? RSVP to newbridge@hotmail.co.uk

It’s on Amazon Prime!

Hi Keith, I heard about this film yesterday whilst playing village cricket. Any chance you can send me a copy of the film? I have a VHS ripper which lets me turn a recording into an MP4 video file and so I’ll create the mp4 file and send it back to you, then share the online recording on this thread for everyone to enjoy.

I’d love to see the movie as I play for the Invalids A wandering cricket club, founded in 1919 by JC Squire, poet, critic and
editor of the London Mercury magazine. The name was given in honour of several players wounded in WW1.

Squire, no great cricketer himself but passionate about the game, led his motley group of literary acquaintances to do battle against village sides each weekend.
Club colours were hospital blue and old gold (inspired by the army officers’ hospital pyjamas), with a crest representing a pair of crossed crutches.

Teams in the early days included writers, journalists and actors, whose thirst for refreshment and approach to cricket was immortalised in AG MacDonell’s very same book and so we’d love to see the movie.
Many thanks in advance.