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Nine  ★★★★  It's June 1976 and, as the pre-credits sequence
reminds us, it's a time of great colour, movement and unrest. In
the US, the counterculture may have been and (almost) gone but,
in Britain and Australia, the establishment still has a firm
grip on society, even as the next generation is rising up
against it. That's the backdrop for this cracking tale that
presents a microcosm of that culture clash. (After all, plenty
of people will tell you that cricket itself is simply life writ
small.) If the first five minutes or so of this lush two-parter
feel a bit unsteady, it quickly finds its feet. It is always
tricky, for instance, casting well-known faces as other well-
known faces - it takes a while for Lachy Hulme to stop being
Lachy Hulme with bad hair and a pot belly to truly become Kerry
Packer. But, all credit to the man, he absolutely does. Likewise
with the Australian cricketers. It doesn't help that - in the
great tradition of Australi