Playing the Game?
eBook - ePub

Playing the Game?

Cricket's Tarnished Ideals from Bodyline to the Present

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Playing the Game?

Cricket's Tarnished Ideals from Bodyline to the Present

About this book

Of all games, cricket has long prided itself on its ethical traditions, but to modern skeptics the idea of cricket encapsulating a higher morality is actually something of a myth. Playing the Game? looks at the changing ethics of cricket, from its gentlemanly roots right up until the present day. After decades of sledging, intimidatory bowling, blatant gamesmanship and dissent, the MCC adopted "The Spirit of Cricket" in 2000 in an attempt to reclaim the game's original ethos—but was it already too late? While the concept is a noble one, its impact has so far been limited, as award-winning cricket scribe Mark Peel explains. As well as looking back to the infamous Bodyline series of 1932/33, Peel also investigates the effects of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket; takes the ICC to task on their failure to quell rowdy behavior and gamesmanship; examines the double standards of Western cricketing nations towards Pakistan; and delves into the recent ball-tampering affair that has tainted Aussie cricket.

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Information

Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781785314667
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 ‘Well bowled, Harold’
  8. Chapter 2 Bradman’s Revenge
  9. Chapter 3 The Throwing Controversy
  10. Chapter 4 The Sedate Sixties?
  11. Chapter 5 The Subversive Seventies
  12. Chapter 6 Kerry Packer’s Legacy
  13. Chapter 7 Danger in Paradise
  14. Chapter 8 The Prowling Tiger
  15. Chapter 9 The Headmaster’s Study
  16. Chapter 10 ‘Ugly Australians’
  17. Chapter 11 Conning the Umpire
  18. Chapter 12 Muralitharan’s Elbow
  19. Chapter 13 An Oriental Superpower
  20. Chapter 14 Mental Disintegration
  21. Chapter 15 ‘Monkeygate’
  22. Chapter 16 Ball-tampering
  23. Chapter 17 England Bare Their Teeth
  24. Chapter 18 McCullum’s Crusade
  25. Conclusion
  26. Bibliography
  27. Endnotes
  28. Index