Cricket’s Changing Ethos: Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL
TL;DR: In this article, the authors encapsulate the evolution of cricket by traversing its social, economic and cultural dimensions, and the inter-subjective understanding embedded in the game is discussed.
Abstract: The book effectively encapsulates the evolution of cricket by traversing its social, economic and cultural dimensions. In this connection, the inter-subjective understanding embedded in the game ha...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the relationship between globalization and cricket is better understood in terms of the post-westernization of the international game, rather than focusing on the global diffusion of cricket and why it has been adopted in some countries but not others.
Abstract: In this article I argue that, rather than focusing on the global diffusion of cricket and the reasons why it has been adopted in some countries but not others, the relationship between globalization and cricket is better understood in terms of the post-Westernization of the international game. The post-Westernization of cricket is associated with the rise to prominence of the One-Day International (ODI) vis-a-vis the more traditional Test match format and this, in turn, is associated with a shift in the balance of administrative power away from Lord's (in London) towards Asian cricket, centred on India, and the relocation of the ICC to Dubai. In this shift, the ODI has been utilized by India as the means to prise power away from the traditional centres.
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TL;DR: The Politics of South African Cricket as discussed by the authors analyses the relationship between politics and sport, in particular cricket, in South Africa and argues convincingly that cricket assisted the reform process by undermining the legitimacy of the apartheid regime.
Abstract: 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 Africa is certainly influenced by forces beyond the playing field, but politics too can be influenced by the social and economic force of sport. Focusing on the sports boycott as a political strategy, Jon Gemmell analyses the relationship between sport and politics through a historical analysis of South African cricket. He employs case studies to explore the relationship between politics and South African cricket and argues convincingly that cricket assisted the reform process by undermining the legitimacy of the apartheid regime.
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TL;DR: The authors examined English cricket discourse in an attempt to expand upon existing analyses of English sporting nationalism, and argued that there has been a marked strengthening of English nati cation in recent decades.
Abstract: This essay examines English cricket discourse in an attempt to expand upon existing analyses of English sporting nationalism. It is argued that there has been a marked strengthening of English nati...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to fit Victorian county cricket into a broader socio-cultural context by focusing on such complex themes as status, class-distinctions, social mobility, paternalism, and snobbery.
Abstract: Although sport and recreation are vital segments of human life and culture, they have generally been neglected by social historians. Serious scholars still know too little about these important subjects even in England, where a spectacular sports explosion occurred during the nineteenth century. Cricket is perhaps the most English of all games and has long been regarded as an important national symbol. Any careful study of it is therefore likely to throw useful light on the English mores and character. By focusing on such complex themes as status, class-distinctions, social mobility, paternalism, and snobbery, this paper will try to fit Victorian county cricket into a broader socio-cultural context. This study of amateurs and professionals will attempt to provide some insights not only into the basic economics of Victorian cricket (which deserve more attention than they have received hitherto), but also into the intricate relationships between masters and servants and the interesting English attitudes towards professionalism in sport.Betting, corruption, and professionalism had been integral elements in English cricket during the Hanoverian age. The Victorians discarded the first two and kept the third, while for a long time trying to exclude all three from soccer. In the end, they failed and had to accept professionalism in Association football in 1885. Curiously, none of this soul-searching occurred in cricket where professionalism was always quite simply regarded as a necessary evil. First class cricket, in fact, sprang directly out of professionalism. It was the touring professionals who taught the Victorians how to play as well as sell the game. Without the work of the All England and United Elevens during 1845-70, county cricket might never have evolved as it did.
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TL;DR: In this article, the future direction of international cricket from the point of view of a global cricket administrator is analyzed from the perspective of a very English sport, where the game has developed from being a very British sport to a very international sport.
Abstract: The essay analyses the future direction of international cricket from the point of view of a global cricket administrator. To appreciate how the game has developed from being a very English sport p...
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