The Ashes is the pinnacle of world cricket with two old enemies, Australia and England, going head to head. This series is the story of World Series Cricket and its creator, Australian media mogul Kerry Packer, who signed up the world’s greatest players and set up a parallel cricket competition. The Australian cricket team, visiting England in 1977 for the Ashes series, fields a team full of legends. Cricket is undergoing a revolution and the cricket establishment will be brought to its knees.
Starring: Lachy Hulme (Offspring, The Caravan, The Ex-PM, The Secret River, Gallipoli, It’s a Date, The Little Death, Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch Story). Abe Forsythe (Soul Mates, House Husbands, Laid, Little Deaths, All Saints, The Extra). Matthew Le Nevez (Unit Zero, Australia Day, Brock, Offspring, The Kettering Incident, Love Child, Parer’s War, The Tender Hook).