Cricketing Cultures in Conflict: Cricketing World Cup 2003 (Sport in the Global Society, 51)

Half-Title......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Dedication......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Series Editor’s Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Prologue......Page 16
PART I......Page 31
1 South African Cricket: Revival and Turmoil......Page 32
The apartheid years......Page 33
Return to the fold......Page 36
The development programmes......Page 37
Positive discrimination......Page 40
Progress to assessment......Page 43
The World Cup and after......Page 46
2 England and its Cricketscape: In Decline or On the Up?......Page 49
The 1990s—a decade of change......Page 50
Catching the cricket bug......Page 52
The further erosion of the English cricketscape......Page 55
Have standards risen?......Page 58
2003: The dawn of the post-MacLaurin era......Page 60
Time for a make-over—the need for city-regions......Page 64
Conclusion......Page 67
3 Trials and Tribulations: The Story of New Zealand Cricket......Page 68
Early development......Page 69
Impediments to progress......Page 70
Rugby as Goliath......Page 71
The Australia factor......Page 72
Early World Cup experience......Page 75
The 1980s as watershed......Page 76
The 1990s: A period of turmoil......Page 79
Concluding remarks......Page 84
4 Cricket in Sri Lanka: In Need of a Messiah......Page 85
Early development......Page 89
Ceylon’s history lesson......Page 92
Growth plans and a dream......Page 96
Concluding remarks......Page 99
The glory years......Page 101
The tradition established......Page 103
Outdone by their own imitators......Page 104
The age of unceasing fire......Page 106
The absence of spin......Page 108
A question of balance......Page 109
The roots of calypso cricket......Page 110
Effects of first-class inexperience......Page 111
A level playing field at last......Page 112
A slump of serious proportions......Page 113
Some positive signs......Page 115
Concluding remarks......Page 117
6 An Ambiguous Legacy: Australia and the 2003 World Cup......Page 118
Historical stigmas and noble defeatism......Page 119
A cricket dynasty......Page 126
Finance......Page 129
Security and politics......Page 131
Conclusion......Page 134
The nature of cricket in contemporary India......Page 136
The peculiarity of Indianness......Page 139
An impoverished nation......Page 142
Concluding remarks......Page 149
Rhodesian elitism and Mugabe’s misplaced idealism......Page 150
Early development......Page 155
Growth problems......Page 158
Moving forward......Page 161
PART II......Page 166
Introduction......Page 167
The rugby case of 1995......Page 168
South African cricket in the 1970s and 1980s......Page 172
South African cricket in the 1990s: A new era......Page 174
The quota system......Page 176
The Cricket World Cup 2003......Page 178
Concluding remarks......Page 182
10 Relaying the Pitch: Structural Changes in English Cricket......Page 184
The problem of identity......Page 185
Attempts at change......Page 189
The state as agent of change......Page 194
Reconstituting English cricket......Page 195
11 Money Tames Cricket......Page 198
Match fixing and after......Page 199
The commercialization of cricket......Page 201
Concluding remarks......Page 221
12 The Indian Spectator: A Grandstand View......Page 222
The origin and evolution of the species......Page 224
The Internet is the new playground......Page 227
In unity lies their fun......Page 229
The fan in the crowd: Swept by nationalism......Page 231
Diaspora......Page 233
Bowling the maidens over......Page 234
Conclusion......Page 237
13 Match-Fixing: A Dead Enemy?......Page 238
Betting and fixing: A peek into history......Page 240
Corruption......Page 244
Cricket administrators—silent conspirators......Page 246
The unanswered questions......Page 247
Learnings and the future......Page 248
Organizational success......Page 251
Sportsmanship revived: on the field......Page 253
The Warne episode......Page 254
Controversy: On and off the field......Page 255
Winning Australians......Page 256
The shift: Indian resurgence......Page 257
The shift and future: Impact of India’s resurgence......Page 259
Emancipatory paradoxes: Indian women and the 2003 World Cup......Page 262
Unresolved challenges: Cricketing cultures in conflict......Page 264
Politics and sport: Democracy and its heroes......Page 265
Politics and sport—the drawn-out debacle. The English saga: Dithering and deceit......Page 267
Politics and sport: The ICC and the British government......Page 270
A price to be paid......Page 272
Notes......Page 273
Notes on Contributors......Page 318
Index......Page 321