Mates go in to bat for each other

By Stephanie Bunbury
March 1 2013 - 3:00am
Touring India … Brendan Cowell, Stephen Curry and Damon Gameau.
Touring India … Brendan Cowell, Stephen Curry and Damon Gameau.

Much of Save Your Legs!, Boyd Hicklin's cheerful love letter to really crap cricket, is based on a real tour his own park cricket team, the Abbotsford Anglers, made of India in 2001. A documentary he made afterwards, also called Save Your Legs!, shows that he and his mates really did play on wickets shared with goats, really did play a team of tram conductors serenaded on to the field by a brass band and really and truly got the runs. So it stands to reason that the fictional characters in Save Your Legs! are immediately recognisable.

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