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1. The Changing Face of Cricket

   From Imperial to Global Game

   Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Jon Gemmell, Nalin Mehta

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   For cricket enthusiasts there is nothing to match the meaningful contests and excitement generated by the game’s subtle shifts in play. Conversely, huge swathes of the world’s population find cricket the most obscure and bafflingly impenetrable of sports. The Changing Face of Cricket attempts to...

   Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
2. Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, Jon Gemmell

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Cricket has been subject to a number of changes over the last twenty years. We can no longer talk of a sport particular to an out-dated English way of life. Cricket has become global and has to exist within the global environment. Primarily the world game has become commercialised. This collection...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
3. The Politics of South African Cricket

   By Jon Gemmell

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   The Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa. South African Cricket embraces an ethos that is symbolic of a wider held belief system and as such has distinctive political connotations in the region.Sport in South...

   Published May 5th 2004 by Routledge
4. The Politics of South African Cricket

   By Jon Gemmell

   The Politics of South African Cricket analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa. South African Cricket embraces an ethos that is symbolic of a wider held belief system and as such has distinctive political connotations in the region.Sport in South...

   Published March 30th 2004 by Routledge