Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5116 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| INTERLINK CRICKET CLUB AND INDIAN CRICKET CLUB 1978 BRADFORD | 1978 | 1978-07-01 |
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Details
Original Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 2 mins 48 secs Subject: Urban Life Sport |
| Summary This is a film of the Indian Cricket Club playing the Yews Green Cricket Club in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School Cricket League, Sir James Roberts Cup Final in July 1978. |
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Description
This is a film of the Indian Cricket Club playing the Yews Green Cricket Club in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School Cricket League, Sir James Roberts Cup Final in July 1978.
The film begins with a brief shot of an Asian woman and a child (mother and daugher Hemlata and Darshana Mistry) before going onto an Indian Cricket Club team coming onto the field at Bradford Park Avenuecricket ground and warming up.
The game gets underway with the Indian Cricket team fielding and Yews Green players...
This is a film of the Indian Cricket Club playing the Yews Green Cricket Club in the Bradford Mutual Sunday School Cricket League, Sir James Roberts Cup Final in July 1978.
The film begins with a brief shot of an Asian woman and a child (mother and daugher Hemlata and Darshana Mistry) before going onto an Indian Cricket Club team coming onto the field at Bradford Park Avenuecricket ground and warming up.
The game gets underway with the Indian Cricket team fielding and Yews Green players batting. After some action, a group of spectators applauds the Indian Cricket Club team as they come off at the end of the innings. They are then batting with Mohan Mistry and Prabh Mistry opening the batting.
The film switches to a kitchen where the little girl (Darshana Mistry) is having a wash in the sink. Next, with a microphone in her hand, she is singing and dancing. The film then comes to an end.
Context
This film is of the pioneering Indian Cricket Club in action at Bradford Park Avenue, breaking down barriers between communities in the 1970s.
This is a film of possibly the first Indian amateur cricket club to be formed in England, made up of immigrants who have settled in Bradford. It consists of excerpts of the Sir James Roberts Cup Final being played at Bradford Park Avenue against Yews Green Cricket Club team in July 1978. As a matter of interest, Indian Cricket team won the Final and...
This film is of the pioneering Indian Cricket Club in action at Bradford Park Avenue, breaking down barriers between communities in the 1970s.
This is a film of possibly the first Indian amateur cricket club to be formed in England, made up of immigrants who have settled in Bradford. It consists of excerpts of the Sir James Roberts Cup Final being played at Bradford Park Avenue against Yews Green Cricket Club team in July 1978. As a matter of interest, Indian Cricket team won the Final and the Sir James Robert's Cup. At the end a sweet small girl (Darshana Mistry), having bathed in a sink and overcome camera shyness, shows some promise as a pop star. This film was taken by Keith Dorrington (additional footage by Mohan Mistry), having bathed in a sink and overcome camera shyness, shows some promise as a pop star. This film was taken by Keith Dorrington at the cricket ground (additional footage by Mohan Mistry). The Interlink Cricket Club that formed in 1970, as part of the Bradford Mutual Sunday School Cricket League, with a Youth Club on St Margaret’s Road, and managed by Rev. Keith Potter of St Columbus Church in Great Horton. The club was open to all nationalities but was mainly made up of players who had come from India and several from Pakistan. A DVD tracing the history of the club, until it changed management in 1979, was recently made, narrated by founding member Mohan Mistry. |
