Introduction: Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century
Souvik Naha and Dominic Malcolm
Part I - Emerging Networks in Global Cricket
1. Cricket, Brexit and the Anglosphere
Dominic Malcolm
2. Capitalism and the ethics of sport governance: a history of the board of control for cricket in India
Avipsu Halder
3. From idyllic past-time to spectacle of accelerated intensity: televisual technologies in contemporary cricket
Damion Sturm
4. Flight of fantasy or reflections of passion? Knowledge, skill and fantasy cricket
Souvik Naha
5. Maidens and Man-kads: gendering cricket scholarship in the 21st century
Rafaelle Nicholson
Part II - Shifting Topographies of National Cricket
6. Cricket, terrorism and security in contemporary South Asia
Kausik Bandyopadhyay
7. The development of cricket in China
Boyang He and Dominic Malcolm
8. Beyond the boundary: the Sandpapergate scandal and the limits of transnational masculinity
John Hughson and Marina Hughson
9. Cricket, society and religion: a study of increasing religiosity in the national cricket team of Pakistan
Ali Khan
10. No-ball! When transformation, indigenization and politicking overstepped into Zimbabwean cricket
Admire Thonje
11. Quotas in South African cricket: what the players say
Mary-Ann Dove, Janine Gray, Mogammad S. Taliep and Catherine E. Draper
Part III - Negotiating Diversity in English Cricket
12. Towards a safer past: thoughts on the invocation of English cricket’s soul
Stephen Wagg
13. “The ‘blazer boys’ were getting all the chances”: South Asian men’s experiences of cricket coaching in England
Thomas Fletcher, David Piggott and Julian North
14. Inclusionary and exclusionary banter: English club cricket, inclusive attitudes and male camaraderie
William Lawless and Rory Magrath
15. Cricket has no boundaries with NatWest? The hyperreality of inclusion and diversity in English cricket
Ben Powis and Philippa Velija
Biography
Souvik Naha is Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Post-colonial History at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He has published extensively in colonial and postcolonial history, including a monograph and several edited journal special issues. He is the Joint Executive Academic Editor of Sport in Society and Associate Editor of Sport in History.
Dominic Malcolm is Professor of Sociology of Sport in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, England. He has authored 5 monographs, edited 9 anthologies and written over 100 journal articles and book chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
