''Prince Ranjitsinhji Practising Batting in the Nets'' was a 1897

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

of the cricketer Ranjitsinhji. This film attributed to Henry Walter Barnett, is one of the earliest surviving about

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

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* 1890s Australian films 1890s short documentary films Films set in 1897 Australian sports documentary films Australian silent short films Australian black-and-white films 1897 short films Cricket films {{Australia-silent-film-stub