The Abbotsford Anglers, a park cricket team from Sydney, wangle their way into a tournament in India, an adventure to test their team spirit and put them on their sporting mettle in this stolid fish-out-of-water comedy. Adapted from director Boyd Hicklin’s 2005 doc about the real-life Anglers, this piles on sundry sub-continent clichés (including a tiresomely inevitable Bollywood angle), and pays lip-service to the troubling issues of maturity facing these thirtysomethings, before unsurprisingly settling on the usual final-reel decider. The cast are amiably geeky and blokey as required, but there’s an underlying air of Aussie jingoism which perhaps doesn’t quite travel.

Knocked for Six
Time Out says
Release Details
- Rated:15
- Release date:Friday 13 June 2014
- Duration:88 mins
Cast and crew
- Director:Boyd Hicklin
- Screenwriter:Brendan Cowell
- Cast:
- Brenton Thwaites
- David Lyons
- Brendan Cowell
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