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THE
VERDICT
No
guts - no glory. If ever there
was a sporting story that summed
up this adage about extreme
physical endurance prevailing…
then this is it!
Madras
Magic: The Tied Test of '86, is
a triumph on many levels. Not
only does it ensure one of the
greatest cricket matches of all
time gets its rightful and long
overdue recognition but this
absorbing documentary is also a
tremendous cultural travelogue
of a sporting spectacle that
turned out to be a pivotal point
in Australian-Indian relations -
on and off the pitch.
It
can be persuasively argued the
Madras tie could lay claim to
being the greatest match in 129
years of test cricket. Certainly
Australian great Bob Simpson,
who played a key role in both
matches, believes Madras to have
been the tougher test, given
that the match was played over
five gruelling days in
temperatures that hovered around
40-degrees Celsius and
80-percent humidity!
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