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Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age

Following On

Edited by Stephen Wagg

Published September 15th 2008 by Routledge – 290 pages

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Description

Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in the twenty-first century, this book dispels the age-old idea of a gentle game played on England's village greens.

This is an original political and historical study of the game's development in a range of countries and covers:

* cricket in the new Commonwealth: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Caribbean and India

* the cricket cultures of Australia, New Zealand and post-apartheid South Africa

* cricket in England since the 1950s.

This new book is ideal for students of sport, politics, history and postcolonialism as it provides stimulating and comprehensive discussions of the major issues including race, migration, gobalization, neoliberal economics, the media, religion and sectarianism.

Contents

Introduction by Stephen Wagg

Section One: Cricket and the Former Dominions

1. Unity, Difference and the ‘National Game’: Cricket and Australian National Identity

Brett Hutchins

2. Kiwi or English?: Cricket on the Margins of New Zealand National Identity

Greg Ryan

3. ‘No-one in Dolly’s Class at Present?’ Cricket and National Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Jon Gemmell and James Hamill

Section Two: Cricket in the New Commonwealth

4. Play Together, Live Apart: Religion, Politics and Markets in Indian Cricket Since 1947

Sharda Ugra

5. History Without a Past: Memory and Forgetting in Indian Cricket

Satadru Sen

6. Cricket in ‘a Nation Imperfectly Imagined’: Identity and Tradition in Postcolonial Pakistan

Chris Valiotis

7. Sri Lanka: The Power of Cricket and the Power in Cricket

Michael Roberts

8. One Eye on the Ball, One Eye on the World: Cricket, West Indian Nationalism and the Spirit of C.L.R.James

Tim Hector

Compiled and with editorial commentary by Stephen Wagg

Section Three: Cricket in the Old Country

9. Calypso Kings, Dark Destroyers: England-West Indies Test Cricket and the English Press, 1950 to 1984

Stephen Wagg

10. ‘A Carnival of Cricket?’: The Cricket World Cup, ‘Race’ and the Politics of Carnival

Tim Crabbe and Stephen Wagg

11. Sheffield Caribbean: The Story of a Yorkshire Cricket Club

Chris Searle

12. Clean Bowl Racism? Inner City London and the Politics of Cricket Development

Nick Miller

13. The Ambush Clause: Globalisation, Corporate Power and the Governance of World Cricket

Mike Marqusee

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