Cricket's Changing Ethos Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL
This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of th
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CRICKET’S CHANGING ETHOS Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL
Jon Gemmell
Global Culture and Sport Series Series Editors Stephen Wagg Leeds Beckett University UK David Andrews University of Maryland USA
Series Editors: Stephen Wagg, Leeds Beckett University, UK, and David Andrews, University of Maryland, USA.The Global Culture and Sport series aims to contribute to and advance the debate about sport and globalization through engaging with various aspects of sport culture as a vehicle for critically excavating the tensions between the global and the local, transformation and tradition and sameness and difference. With studies ranging from snowboarding bodies, the globalization of rugby and the Olympics, to sport and migration, issues of racism and gender, and sport in the Arab world, this series showcases the range of exciting, pioneering research being developed in the field of sport sociology. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15008
Jon Gemmell
Cricket’s Changing Ethos Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL
Jon Gemmell Kennet School Thatcham, UK
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For Rosa and Verity
Preface
On 17 January 2018, the South African batter Jiveshan Pillay was given out when he picked a stationary ball up to pass to the fielding side. The opposing West Ind
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