week10
The Future for Cricket
Topics to be discussed: cricket as a global force, areas for expansion (Afghanistan, UAE, Namibia, Kenya), women鈥檚 cricket, constraints (changing formats, match fixing / corruption, competition)
Questions
Is cricket an important world sport?
Where are the opportunities for expansion, and what are the constraints?
How has women's cricket developed so quickly?
What are the major challenges facing cricket?
TV (Documentary) (2014 documentary); (Al Jazeera 2016 documenary)
Reading
Philippa Velija Women鈥檚 cricket and global processes (2015) (library ebook)
Dominic Malcolm, Globalizing cricket: Englishness, empire and identity (2012)
David Frith, 'Cricket and corruption' in Cambridge Companion to Cricket (library ebook)
168-191
Raffaele Nicholson 'Confronting the "whiteness" of women's cricket : excavating hidden truths and knowledge to make sense of non-white women's experiences of cricket' in Race, gender and sport : the politics of ethnic "other" girls and women / edited by Aarti Ratna and Samaya F. Samie. (library ebook)