More generally, for people in the UK radio area, there has been an
excellent series on Radio 4 at Thursday, 8pm, on the relation
between cricket and the former colonies. The programme last
week was on the West Indies, and the relationship between
changes in social relations between the ruling and subaltern
classes, and things like the captainship of the West Indian Test
side, which bore no relationship to any tangible polity. "White men
can't bowl" was the subtitle of the program, and it charted the way
that this was subverted from an exercise of White power (not
bowling because it was too hot, and gentlemen would not embarras
themselves that way) to an inversion of that relationship (the former
masters could not win the games because they could not bowl).
Very interesting, and the remaining programmes may be worth a
listen.
Paul.
> Dear all,
>
> If anyone is interested in pursuing the relationships between
> cricket (and sport in general) and society, Hilary Beckles' forthcoming
> works should prove to be excellent:
>
> BECKLES, H. McD. (1999) The Development of West Indian Cricket 2 vols.
> Pluto Press
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