A film made by former Yorkshire and England cricket player, turned journalist, Bill Bowes showing a tour of Australia at the time of the Ashes. The film includes some good action sequences from the test matches themselves, as well as of the players away from the games. Matches include Queensland Country v MCC at Athletic Oval, Toomwoomba 8-9 December, 1950 and Australia v England, 5th Test match at Melbourne 23-28 February, 1951. The film begins showing several large imposing buildings....

A film made by former Yorkshire and England cricket player, turned journalist, Bill Bowes showing a tour of Australia at the time of the Ashes. The film includes some good action sequences from the test matches themselves, as well as of the players away from the games. Matches include Queensland Country v MCC at Athletic Oval, Toomwoomba 8-9 December, 1950 and Australia v England, 5th Test match at Melbourne 23-28 February, 1951. The film begins showing several large imposing buildings. Intertitle – The United States Embassy The Embassy building is show together with a nearby church. Intertitle – Civic – one of the main shopping and business centres The Civic shopping centre is shown. Intertitle – Springtime in Canberra’s tree lined avenues. Some of the avenues are shown and three women visit some of the buildings, including the Old Parliament House. There is a cricket match being played. Intertitle – Brisbane is shown from various vantage points. Two men stand on a platform high up overlooking the city. There is another game of cricket, with a medium paced left-armed bowler, followed by a medium paced right-armed bowler. Around the ground various officials stand around and out comes one of the English players, either John Dewes or Alec Bedser, followed by two Australian players. Other English players stand around and Brian Close gets into a bus. There is more cricket of the game between Old Country IX and the MCC, showing the scoreboard with Sheppard and Simpson batting and Rossiter bowling. Members of the MCC party go sightseeing and lounge and lark about on a beach. The film switches to show the press stand. Two of the stands are shown, one with a clock in the centre. The scoreboard shows it is the game at Melbourne (Australia first innings 194). There is some cricketing action and the teams go off for lunch. More cricket action is filmed, and the scoreboard is shown again with England having a 1st innings score of 197. Later the scoreboard shows the Australian second innings, all out for 181, and England 9 for 136, with Bedser on 6 and Wright on 0. There is some more action and views of the ground before we see the England cricket team stopping to pose as they board a flight. The team hang around the airport on arrival and then there is a cricket game, with a church behind the scoreboard (Brisbane?). There are views over a city. The team stand around at an airport and again the press stand is shown. There is another match at a minor ground with a small scoreboard showing Tattersall 10 9, and Simpson, 152 and 312. There is good film of an over from behind the bowler’s arm. One batsman is cleaned bowled, signalling the end of the innings. The scoreboard is changed and the rollers come on before the following innings. Several overs are shown, with one batsman caught behind in the slips. Again the press box is shown. The scoreboard is shown with Australia having a 1st innings total of 217 and England of 320 (Melbourne). Hassett (45) and Hole (19) are batting with Brown bowling in the 43rd over. One of the batsmen is bowled out. The next batsman in is struggling and finally gets caught.