1st Edition
Cricket and National Identity in the Postcolonial Age Following On
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
Biography
Stephen Wagg is Reader in Sport and Society at Roehampton University, UK. He has written widely on the politics of sport, of the media, of comedy and of childhood.
