Top 5 must watch cricket documentaries

Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War (2012)

Kerry Packer, founder of the World Series Cricket Championship

This documentary created serious flutters amongst the public when it was first brought to the masses in 2012. Set in the 1970s, it is based on the famous World Series Cricket initiated by media tycoon Kerry Packer.

Denied broadcasting rights to a game in Australia, Kerry Packer came up with the World Series Cricket in order to extract revenge. Handpicking some of the best players, Kerry formed his own legend-filled Australian team that would compete in a tournament, which would later go on to revolutionise the whole cricket world with the new format it followed.

Based centrally on the book titled ‘Cricket War’, Howzat! gained popularity just a few days after it’s inception. Prominent actors were brought on board to impersonate the characters who were involved in the original series, while the technology drastically improved. The first of it’s kind, Kerry Packer’s War brought in some advancements in cricket. How he achieved that has been showcased in the two episodes of this documentary.