Six-part show may serve as PR for Australia in the aftermath of scandal, but it adeptly chronicles a dramatic 16 months
From the aftermath of their 2018 ball-tampering meltdown through to last summer’s Ashes defence, Australia’s male cricketers were followed by a camera crew. Net sessions, team meetings, coach journeys, the dressing room – hundreds of hours of access-all-areas footage were shot inside the team bubble.
Those 16 months have been edited down into an eight-part documentary series for Amazon Prime entitled The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Team, which begins this week. It is a hefty slab of work, the production values of which point to the director Adrian Brown’s team being deft operators and remind you how burnished cricket’s televised coverage is.
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SNEAK PEEK The Test: A New Era for Australia’s Team
The brand new documentary series features unprecedented access to our Aussie Men, coming to Amazon Prime Video in Australia and around the world in early 2020. pic.twitter.com/kZGfpvSdFj
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