a political history of the global game, 1945-2017 /
Stephen Wagg.
London :
Routledge,
2018.
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part, PART I Cricket and the end of empire -- chapter 1 Fossilised reactionaries? English cricket since 1945 -- chapter 2 A nation of blow-ins? Cricket in Australia since 1945 -- chapter 3 'The partnership of the horse and its rider': cricket in Southern Africa since 1945 -- chapter 4 A relative lack of interest: cricket in New Zealand since 1945 -- chapter 5 Father, king, statesman, general, prince, don: West Indian cricket culture since 1945 -- chapter 6 The soul of a nation, long suppressed? Cricket in India since 1945 -- chapter 7 Cricket in a hard country: Pakistani cricket since 1947 -- chapter 8 'We rule here, you rule there': cricket in East Pakistan and Bangladesh since 1947 -- chapter 9 After brewing tea for the empire: cricket in Sri Lanka since 1945 -- part, PART II Cricket in the age of globalisation -- chapter 10 Straight-shooting blokes: social distinction, masculinity and myth in the Ashes, 1945 to 2015 -- chapter 11 'Everyone seemed to be "with it"': cricket politics and the coming of the one-day game, 1940-1970 -- chapter 12 'Paint a picture, and keep it the right way up': cricket and the mass media 1945-2015 -- chapter 13 Women's cricket: the feminism that dared not speak its name - a brief history -- chapter 14 Remove the gunk in the middle . . .: the coming of Twenty20 and the Indian Premier League -- chapter 15 Have you made this team great, or have they made you? Cricket, coaching and globalisation -- chapter 16 Beyond the boundaries: the drive to globalise cricket, and its limits -- chapter Afterword.