Prince Ranjitsinhji Practising Batting in the Nets (1897)
- Directed by
- Henry Walter Barnett
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 3 min
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A 1897 silent documentary shows Prince Ranjitsinhji batting in a cricket net. It is one of the oldest surviving films about the sport.
historicalsimpleobservationalquietstraightforwardnostalgicearnest
What happens
Prince Ranjitsinhji Practising Batting in the Nets was a 1897 film of the cricketer Ranjitsinhji. This film attributed to Henry Walter Barnett, is one of the earliest surviving about cricket. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
Trailer
More like this
- That's Cricket (1931)
- Silks and Saddles (1921)
- The Cricket on the Hearth (1923)
- How McDougall Topped the Score (1924)
- Our Indian Empire (1897)
- Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest (1896)
- The Cup Winner (1911)
- Cricket (1950)
Browse movies and series
press Enter to search by title, your filters still apply · for something by mood, tap Discover
Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers
Loading movies…