The Game

Cricket is often seen the quintessential game of empire, used throughout the British Empire to instill a notion of appropriate decorum in the context of loss and oppression.

What counter-narratives can be offered to balance this story of cricket as a willing accomplice to empire?

Sources

• Bateman, Anthony. Cricket, Literature and Culture: Symbolising the Nation, Destabilising Empire. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2009.
• Bateman, Anthony and Jeffrey Hill. The Cambridge Companion to Cricket. Cambridge University Press, Mar 17, 2011.
• The Royal Park Reds
• Is Cricket Communist?
• Why should cricketers be socialist in their leaning?
• Strange journalism: Socialism to blame for missing five wicket haul
• The Socialism of Fast Bowling