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Abbas, Zaheer, 242 Atherton, Michael, 64 , 218 , 250 , 251 aesthetic, 2 , 7 , 8 , 13 , 16 , 20 , 21 , 133 , 134 , Australia, xvii , xviii , xix, xxiii , 1 , 5 135 , 144 , 151 , 194 See also Ashes Newlands Cricket Ground as aesthetic See also Bodyline idyll, 218–23 See also Bradman, Sir Donald Afghanistan, 1 , 262 See also Packer, Kerry Agnew, Jonathan, 58 , 65 Australian and New Zealand Army Corps on gamesmanship, 64 (ANZAC), 85 , 98 on Michael Atherton, 64 Azharuddin, Mohammad, xxiv, 52 , 213 Akhtar, Shoaib, 214 and corruption, 52 Akmal, Kamran, 53 Akram, Wasim, 40 , 46, 47 Baig, Abbas Ali, 205–6 Aldred, Tanya, 252 Baloo, Palwankar, 189 Alfred, Luke, 250 Bangladesh, xxiv , 207 Allen, G. O. (‘Gubby’), 72 awarding of Test status to, 262 All-England XI see William Clarke formation of, 259 Amarnath, Lala, 95, 189 , 203 , 204–5 Barmy Army, 65–6 Amarnath, Mohinder, 46 Barnes, Simon, 60 amateurs / amateurism, xix , xxii , 7 , 94 Barrie, J. M., 16–17 amateur ideals in New Zealand, baseball, 2 , 6 , 7 , 79 124 Major League Baseball, 175 aristocratic patronage, 12 , 26 , 27–30 Beckles, Sir Hilary McD., xxiii, 5 , 144 , 227 , and local identity, 33 252 Arlott, John, 58 , 60 , 62 , 222 , 247 second paradigm of West Indies cricket, 152 ‘Death of John Arlott’, 147 third paradigm of West Indies cricket, 157 on apartheid, 246 Bedi, Bishan, 189 , 208 Armstrong, Warwick, 81, 247 Bedser, Alec, 222 on New Zealand cricket, 123 Beldham, William, 26 , 33 , 35 Ashes (England v. Australia Test matches), on betting and match-fi xing, 41 xviii, 101 Benaud, Richie, 105 , 206 , 240 , 250 and WSC, 108 and WSC, 105 Headingley Test of 1981, 44 as commentator, 59 in the media, 6 Bhattacharya, Rahul, 248 on television, 68 Birley, Sir Derek, xxiii , 5 See also Bodyline Blake, William, 12 , 23 association football (soccer), 1, 56 , 63 , 65, Blofeld, Henry, 58 , 62 122 , 141 , 142 , 188 , 210 , 241 , 261 Blunden, Edmund, 2–3 , 17 , 19 in South African townships, 251 Cricket Country , xxi, 15

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Bodyline, xx , xxi, 70–82, 255–6 pavilion theft, 40 , 43 C. L. R. James on, 137 scuffi ng of the pitch, 40 Don Bradman and, 90–2 Cowdrey, Sir Colin, 222 New Zealand reactions to, 128 Cozier, Tony, 252 Bose, Mihir, 105 , 261 on WSC, 107 Botham, Sir Ian, 44 , 59, 65 , 241, 242 , 244 , Cricinfo, 248–9 250 cricket and political protest, 256 misdemeanours of, 250 cricket as erotic metaphor, 150–1 Bradman, Sir Donald, xx, xxi, xxiv , 80 , cricket as imperial bond, 16 85–98 , 137 , 140 , 175 , 247 Don Bradman and, 92 and apartheid, 96–7 cricket writing, 2–5 , 9 , 11–23 , 221–3 , and Australian bush mythology, 86 238–52 and Bodyline, 71 , 72 , 74 , 77 , 81 , 82, 255 Cronje, Hansie (The Cronje Affair), xxiv, The Art of Cricket , xxi, 98 49–51 , 250 Brearley, Mike, 108 See also discourse of cricket on Douglas Jardine, 81 crowd disturbance, 211 , 214 , 256 , 261 The Art of Captaincy , xxiii Crowe, Martin, 262 Briggs, Johnny, 220 British Broadcasting Corporation see English Dalmiya, Jagmohan, 262 cricket and broadcasting Dev, Kapil, 49 , 189 , 195 , 208 , 209 Butt, Ijaz, 215–16 Dexter, Ted, 240 Byron, Lord, 12 discourse of cricket, 8 , 16 See also cricket writing Canada, xvii , 44 , 148 , 255 D’Oliveira, Basil (The D’Oliveira Affair), Toronto, 210, 263 xxii , 3–4 , 233 , 234 , 245 , 256–7 Cardus, Sir Neville, xx , xxi, 4 , 6 , 19–22 , Dravid, Rahul, 174 , 214 132–3, 238 , 240–1 Dubai (United Arab Emirates), 1, 52 , 262 , Cashman, Richard, 252 265 challenge matches, 32 , 34 , 38 Durrani, Salim, 207–8 Chappell, Ian and WSC, 105 Edrich, Bill, 222 China, i , 1 , 9 , 267 Engel, Matthew, 244 Clarke, William, xvii , 38 England, 1 , 74 Cobbett, William, 5 , 12 Anglo-centric views of cricket, 9, 23 colonial spread of cricket, 2 , 11 , 40 , 254 country-house cricket, 15 colonialism Englishness, xxi , 11–23 , 57 , 62–3 , 192 , 239 ‘reverse colonialism’, 2 English cricket and broadcasting, 55–68 commercialism, 1 , 7 , 9 , 11 , 38 , 186 , 192 , 266 and fi nances of cricket, 66–8 and Indian cricket, 194–6 , 210–11 and the image of English cricket, 61–6 in eighteenth century, 12 , 26 nature of, 58–9 negative implications of, 40 scale of, 55–8 See also Twenty20 English village cricket, 15 , 131–2 Compton, Denis, 222 and politics, 18–19 Constantine, Sir Learie, xx , 73 , 227 in literature, 2, 13 , 131 , 219 in poetry, 145 on television, 56 corporate sponsorship, 66 corruption, xxv, 40–54, 200 , 249 fair play, 40, 223 ball tampering, 40–1 See also sportsmanship biased umpiring, 40, 209 Fingleton, Jack, 90 , 91, 92 ‘doctored’ pitches, 40 , 208–9 as journalist, 89, 97 , 250 drug use, 53 Irish Catholic background of, 88 match-fi xing, xxiv , 41, 43 on Donald Bradman, 87 , 88 , 92

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Flintoff, Andrew, 8 Hobbs, Sir Jack, xix, xxii , 7 , 132 , 226 Flower, Andy, 256 Hopps, David, 252 Foot, David, 241–3 Hughes, Kim, 113 , 252 Fortune, Charles, 223 Hughes, Thomas ( Tom Brown’s on South Africa, 245 Schooldays ), 13 Frith, David, xxiv , 65, 112 , 248 Hussain, Nasser, 250 Fry, C. B., 8 , 137 Hutton, Sir Leonard, xxi, 137

Gallipoli, 77 Ibbotson, Doug, 244 gambling, 12 , 27 , 41 India, xvi, xix, xxi, xxiii , 1 , 5 , 37 in India, 47 as world cricket’s centre of gravity, 173–4 prevalence of in eighteenth century, 30 cricket and corporate sponsorship, 194–6 Gandhi, M. K., 258 cricket and print culture in, 192 Ganguly, Sourav, 174 , 214 cricket and the media in, 192–6 retirement of, 185 cricket on the radio, 193 Gatting, Mike, 250 cricketer as hero in, 187–96 Gavaskar, Sunil, 189 , 195 , 208 , 209 ‘decolonisation’ of Indian cricket, 186 Gayle, Chris economy of, 260–1 and IPL, 176 independence, 203–4 Gibson, Alan, 244 satellite television and Indian cricket, 192 Gimblett, Harold, 242, 247 television and Indian subcontinent, 193–4 globalisation, 1 , 23 , 157 , 167 , 170 , 175 , 181 , Test cricket in, 184–6 199 , 200, 249 , 260 , 261 , 267 ‘vernacularisation’ of Indian cricket, 192 and race issue in India, 177 Indian Cricket League (ICL), xxiv ‘golden age’ of English cricket, xix, 20–2 , Indian Premier League (IPL), xxiv, xxv , 6 , 134 , 137 , 142 215 , 262 , 267 Gower, David, 62 and exclusion of Pakistani players, 215 Grace, W. G., xix , xx, 7 , 42, 43 , 78 , 137 , and fears of corruption, 53–4 141, 189 , 241 and race, 177–9 and ‘shamateurism’, 94 , 149 impact of, 175–7 gamesmanship of, 42–3 pre-tournament fears and controversy, i–1 Green, Benny, 2 India–Pakistan cricket relations, 203–16 , 261 Greenidge, Gordon International Cricket Council (ICC), 1 , 44 , in poetry, 147 , 153 262 Greig, Tony, 104 , 114 , 257 inaction on corruption, 46 as WSC recruiter, 103 , 105 International Cricket Council Anti- Guha, Ramachandra, xxiv, 200 , 248 Corruption and Security Unit, 42, 51 Guttmann, Allen, 191 Iqbal, Asif and corruption allegations, 48 Hadlee, Sir Richard, 128 and WSC, 104 Haigh, Gideon, 247–8 on WSC, 101 , 111 , 113 James, C. L. R., xx, xxii , 5 , 75 , 131–42, 144 , Hambledon (Hampshire), xvi, 2 , 13 227 , 255 Hambledon club, 27 , 29 , 37 and decline of West Indies Hammond, Walter, 137 , 222 , 242 , 247 cricket, 141–2 Harris, Lord, 221 Beyond a Boundary , 5 , 238 Harriss, Ian ‘fi rst logic’, 136–8 critique of WSC, 110 infl uence in Britain, 5 Hawke, Lord, 221 on Bodyline, 73 Hazlitt, William, 12, 131, 135 on George Headley, 140 infl uence on C. L. R. James, 132 on W. G. Grace, 189 Headley, George, 140 , 227 ‘second logic’, 138–9 Hendricks, H. ‘Krom’, 228–9 ‘third logic’, 139–40

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Jardine, Douglas, 71–3, 74 , 77 , Mankad, Vinoo, 205 78–82 , 255 Marlar, Robin, 165 background and education of, 70–1 Marqusee, Mike, xxiii , 5 , 238–9 , Jessop, Gilbert, 137 246–7 , 264 Johnson, Martin, 244–5 Martin-Jenkins, Christopher, 249 Johnson, Samuel, xvi, 11 Marx, Karl, 82 , 135 Johnston, Brian, 59, 62 and C. L. R. James, 136–7 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), xvii , 1 , Kanhai, Rohan 26 , 29 , 77 in poetry, 147 , 151 and apartheid, 4 , 233 , 234 , 257 Kardar, Abdul, 203 and Bodyline, 82 , 90 , 255 Keating, Frank, 241 and laws of cricket, 29 Kesavan, Mukul, 190 , 248 in cricket writing, 239 Khan, Imran, 50 , 208 , 213 increased infl uence of during late and WSC, 104 eighteenth century, 38 and Zimbabwe, 265 MCC Cricket Coaching Book , 2 Khan, Majid, 45 masculinity, 22 , 112 , 147 , 148 , and WSC, 104 153 , 190 Khan, Younis, 53 hyper-masculine values, 100 Kippax, Alan, 75 , 80, 83 Miandad, Javed, 209 , 213 Kumble, Anil, 214 Miller, Keith on apartheid, 231 Laker, Jim, xxi, 59 , 214 Milne, A. A. Lambert, William, xvii , 42 on Bodyline, 74 and match-fi xing, 41 Mitchell, Kevin, 240 Lara, Brian, xxiii, xxiv , 52 , 141, 142 , 169 , Mitford, Mary ( Our Village ), 12–13 , 194 , 249 20 , 22 in Caribbean cricket poetry, 145 Modi, Lalit, xxv, 53 , 216 See also ‘Laraism’ Mohammad, Hanif, 258 ‘Laraism’, 154–8 Mohammad, Mushtaq Larwood, Harold, 71 , 73, 74 , 76 , 77 , 79 , 82 , and WSC, 104 83 , 90 , 91, 256 Morris, Arthur, 175 on Don Bradman and W. M. Woodfull, 81 Moss, Stephen, 234 , 239 , 252 laws of cricket, xvi , 29 Mugabe, Robert, 264 , 265 early written regulations and ‘Articles of Muralitharan, Muttiah, xxiii Agreement’, 31–2, 254 Mynn, Alfred, 42 league cricket, 38 Lillee, Dennis, 44 nationalism, 174 , 178 and WSC, 105 , 112 , 113 Australian nationalism, 254–5 Lloyd, Clive, 44 , 135 , 165 , 169 , 211 in British Caribbean, 160–70 and World Series Cricket, 104 in India–Pakistan cricket relations, 203–6 Lord’s, xvii , xxiii , xxiv , 1 , 9 , 12, 16 , 26 , 37 , Indian, 15 42, 185 , 212 , 219 , 239 Indian popular nationalism, 196–9 South African nationalism, 255 Macdonell, A. G. Nayudu, C. K., 189 England, Their England , 15 , 18 Nehru, Jawaharlal, 258 , 260 MacLaren, A. C., 7 , 126 , 240 Netherlands, xvii , xviii Magazine, Pradeep, 47 , 239 New Zealand, xvii , xx , xxiv , 5 , 263 Mailey, Arthur, 43 Australian neglect of New Zealand cricket, Majumdar, Boria, 252 124–7 Malik, Salim, xxiv , 45 , 46 , 47, 247 cricket as ‘cultural baggage’ of on match-fi xing, 47–8 colonialism, 116–18 Manjrekar, Vijay, 205 economics of New Zealand cricket, 120–4

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New Zealand (cont.) in South Africa, 227 minority participation in New Zealand representations of, 21–2 cricket, 128 status of in eighteenth century, 35 New Zealand cricket and imperial ideals, Pycroft, James (The Cricket-Field ), xvii , 13 , 20 124–7 records betting and match-fi xing, 41 obstacles to development of New Zealand cricket, 118–20 Qadir, Abdul, 190 Wakefi eld, Edward Gibbon, 116–17 WSC in, 106 race, 212 , 256 night cricket, 107 , 109 , 112 See also South Africa: apartheid nostalgia, 3, 11, 13 , 14 , 19 , 21 , 22 , 23, 239 , racism, 163 , 249 242 See also South Africa: apartheid Nyren, John (The Young Cricketer’s Tutor radio, xx and The Cricketers of My Time ), xvii, See also English cricket and broadcasting 2 , 33 , 35 Ranjitsinhji, Prince Kumar Shri, xix, 52 , 137 , 188–9 , 207 Olonga, Henry, 256 , 263 and race, 178–9 Olympic Games, xix, 125 The Jubilee Book of Cricket , xix one-day cricket, 9 , 101–2 religion impact of in Indian subcontinent, 209–11 Christian Socialism, 13 O’Neill, Joseph (Netherland ), 2 Christianity, 40 , 49, 57, 155 , 224 , O’Reilly, Bill, 71 , 87, 90, 92 , 250 227 on Bodyline, 76 , 80 in India, 262 on Don Bradman and Bodyline, 72 in India–Pakistan cricket relations, 203–9 on WSC, 109 in Pakistan, 258 Orwell, George muscular Christianity, 15 on cricket, 18 , 19 , 23 Muslim factor in India–Pakistan cricket relations, 206–9 Packer, Kerry (World Series Cricket), xxii, 6 , religious tensions in India, 260 43 , 146 , 176 , 193 , 247 Rhodes, Cecil John, 219 , 229 Don Bradman and, 97 Rhodes, Jonty, 141 interpretations of, 110–12 Richards, Sir Vivian, 166 , 169, 242 origins of and trigger for, 101–5 and politics of West Indies cricket, 164 recruitment of players, 105–8 and WSC, 104 Pakistan, xxi , xxiii , xxiv , 261 Hitting Across the Line , 164 allegations of corruption, 258–9 in poetry, 147 , 151, 152–3 Jinnah, Mohammad Ali, 203 on cricket as political action, 152, 164 politics in, 258–9 on crisis of West Indies cricket religious tensions in, 262–3 culture, 167 win 1992 World Cup, 210 Richardson, Richie, 153, 165 Pataudi, ‘Tiger’, 207 Richardson, Victor, 90 Peebles, Ian, 222 Root, Fred, 73 Ponsford, W. H., 137 Ross, Alan, 8 , 223 professionals / professionalism, xxi , xxii , 12 , rugby, 142 , 219 15 , 20 , 30 , 33–5, 36 , 37, 38, 43 , 62 , 94 , in New Zealand, 124, 127 , 128 97 , 219 , 226 , 227 in South Africa, 231 and social class, 62 and WSC, 111–12 Sassoon, Siegfried, 19 , 131 demands on professional cricketers, satellite television and Indian cricket, 194 242 Sayers, Dorothy, 131 ex-professionals as journalists, 250, 251 Scruton, Roger ( England: An Elegy ), 22 in New Zealand, 111–12 Selincourt, Hugh de, 15 , 19 , 131 in post-Packer Australian cricket, 111–12 Selvey, Mike, 59 , 251

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Shakespeare, William, 135 , 144 , 148 , 249 Tendulkar, Sachin, xxiii , 8 , 141 , 180 , 213 , Simpson, Bob, 106 , 108 214 , 249 Sissons, Ric, 252 and Indian captaincy, 213 ‘sledging’, 64, 141 and Indian middle class, 198–201 Small, John Test and County Cricket Board and development of batting technique, (TCCB), xxii 35 and broadcasting, 57 Smith, C. Aubrey, 220 , 224 and World Series Cricket, 103 Smith, Ed, 252 The Badminton Book of Cricket , xix Smith, Graeme, 184 Thomson, Jeff, 106, 108 Sobers, Sir Garfi eld, xxi , 141, 162 , 169 Trueman, Fred, 62 , 105 , 205, 247 as consultant to WSC, 105 Trumper, Victor, xix , 7 , 8 , 132 , 137 C. L. R. James on, 133–4 Twenty20 (T20), 7 , 9 , 128 fi nancial discomfort of, 168 and television, 67 in calypso, 146 See also Indian Premier League in poetry, 147 Social Darwinism, 219 Underdown, David, 5 , 27 , 38 Sohail, Aamir, 45 United States of America, xvi, xvii , xviii, xix, South Africa, xvii, xix , xxi, 1 , 5 , 267 2 , 37 , 205 , 255 , 262 , 267 2009 IPL in, 176 ‘Americanisation’ of cricket, 100, 112 apartheid, xxii , 3 , 96–7 , 104–5 , 147 , 153 , 162 , 164 , 166 , 167 , 219 , 235 , 244 , 246 , Viswanath, Gundappa, 209 256 , 264 on corruption, 48 Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’, 179 Walcott, Sir Clyde, 47, 150 , 212 Spofforth, F. R., xviii , 228 Warne, Shane, xxiii , 64, 142 , 194, 247 sportsmanship, 75 and bookmakers, 47, 48 See also fair play and IPL, 176, 178 Squire, J.C., 15, 17, 18 , 20 on match-fi xing, 45 Sri Lanka, xvii, xxiii , xxiv , 45, 46, 47 , 67 , Warner, Sir Pelham, 1 , 9 , 78 , 91 , 220 , 255 142 , 185 , 210 , 211 , 212 , 215 , 240 , 247 , Imperial Cricket , xx , 1 , 17 262 , 267 on South Africa, 221–2, 225–6 terrorist attack on Sri Lankan team, 185, Waugh, Steve, 184 215 , 263 West Indies, xix , xx , xxi, 5 , 127 , 267 Stanford, Sir Allen, 52 Brian Lara and decline of West Indies Star and Garter Club (London), 29 cricket, 168 Stoddart, Brian, xxiii, 5 , 227 Caribbean cricket poetry, 144–58 on WSC, 111 Chris Gayle and decline of West Indies Streak, Heath, 263 cricket, 167 , 168 , 169 Swanton, E. W., xxii, 223, 249 cricket calypso, 145–6 , 147 decline of West Indies cricket, 165–70 television, xxi, 2 , 3 , 6 , 9 , 101 , 107 , 128 , John Agard, ‘Prospero Caliban Cricket’, 210–11 , 249 , 262 149–50 and Indian Premier League, 174, 175 Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Rites’, 146 , and Indian subcontinent, 179, 210–11 150–1 satellite television, 240 West Indies cricket and satellite television and Indian cricket, nationalism, 160–70 180–4 West Indies Federation (1958–62), surfeit of televised cricket, 108 146 television rights, 102–3 West Indies team and Bodyline, 73 WSC and enhancement of TV coverage, WSC in, 106 112–13 West Indies cricket See also English cricket and broadcasting Brian Lara and decline of, 166–7

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