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Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket

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By (author): Duncan Stone

In 1963, the West Indian Marxist C.L.R. James posed the deceptively benign question: What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know? A challenge to the public to re-consider cricket and its meaning by placing the game in its true social, political and economic context, James was, all too subtly, attempting to counter the games orthodox history that, he argued, had played a key role in the formation of national culture. As a consequence, he failed, and the history of cricket in England has retained the same stresses and lineaments as it did a century ago until now. In examining recreational rather than professional (first-class) cricket, Different Class does not simply challenge the widely accepted orthodoxy of English cricket, it demonstrates how the values and belief systems at its heart were, under the guise of amateurism, intentionally developed in order to divide the English along class lines at every level of the game. If the creation of opposing class-based cricket cultures in the North and South of England grew out of this process, the institutional structures developed by those in charge of English cricket continue to discriminate. But, as much as the exclusion of Black and South Asian cricketers from the recreational mainstream is the most obvious example, it is social class that remains the greatest barrier to participation in what used to be the national game. See more
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  • Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Jan 2022
  • Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781913462802

About Duncan Stone

Duncan Stone is a historian long interested in the social and cultural machinations of sport the concept and application of amateurism and who exactly gets to define the form function and meaning of sport. He has worked as a forensic photographer DJ and club promoter builder local government officer and lecturer lecturer at the University of Huddersfield and was previously a visiting researcher at Victoria University in Melbourne Australia.

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