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{{{((D
uring the recent Test series
against the West Indies, the
England cricket team were
kept in a “biosecure bubble”
with their opponents,
backroom staff, groundsmen and
even journalists. It was, according to
most reports, mentally challenging.
However, being trapped in a cricket
ground for weeks surrounded by
people wearing masks and with
colour-coded “safe zones” and limited
social opportunities is a walk in the
park compared with the experiences of
the England cricketers in The Edge.
Barney Douglas’s exhaustive sports
documentary (which had a run incinemas in 2019, after England’s World
Cup triumph) covered the years from
2009 to 2014, a period when England
rose from No 7 in the world to No 1 for
the first time. They then sank to
mediocrity again in that whitewash in
the 2013/14 Ashes series down under.
“Cricket is a duel between the mind
and time,” the narrator Toby Jones
intoned. “It’s about having all the
time in the world until the moment
it matters... then you’ve got half a
second.” Cut to footage of a rip-snorter
from the snarling Aussie quick
Mitchell Johnson clanging off
an England batsman’s helmet.
Test cricket is a sport that asks more
mentally of its players than any other
and the effort of getting to No 1 took
its toll. It was a “sweat-fuelled, tear-
soaked, life-changing climb” that took
casualties along the way, particularly
the intense, “granite” batsman
Jonathan Trott, who struggled with
mental illness. At his lowest ebb Trott
would go to the nets alone and
bombard himself with 95mph balls
from a bowling machine to simulate
batting conditions in Australia. A
bowling machine, Trott said, that had
become his “enemy”.
And it wasn’t just the players —
Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Strauss,
Alastair Cook, Stuart Broad, James
Anderson et al were interviewed in
depth — that made huge sacrifices. In
one year the bloody-minded headcoach Andy Flower was away from his
family for 250 nights. Flower thrived
on “extreme discomfort”, once
punching amiable Tim Bresnan in the
chest just to see how he would react.
The Australians were absent as
talking heads, but appeared as fearless
warriors in anecdotes. The England
wicketkeeper Matt Prior recalled
smashing the ball into the Aussie
captain Ricky Ponting’s mouth. When
Prior inquired if he was OK, Ponting
responded by barking, “F*** off”,
spitting out blood. Sporting success
comes at a price. Douglas’s gripping
film examined the cost in detail.
There was a brief mention of cricket
in the second episode of Andrew
Davies’s adaptation of A Suitable Boy,
Vikram Seth’s mighty tome. It was a
throwaway comment in relation to
post-partition India, which in itself is
a throwaway plot, a side salad to the
meat of the drama, the relationship
melodramas that Davies excels at.
It is beautiful to look at. Lata’s dawn
boat trip with her unsuitable boy was a
dreamy sequence. But you don’t have
to have read the book to know that the
relationship is doomed. No drama
there. Instead, the fireworks were
provided by the devious Meenakshi,
melting down her late father-in-law’s
medals to make earrings. “That girl is
a snake,” raged matriarch Rupa.
Indeed. And we need more of that
The batsman Jonathan Trott, who struggled with mental illness reptilian behaviour to liven things up.The blood, sweat and tears of sporting success
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