week3
The Political Game
Topics to be discussed: Cricket as a point of crisis, e.g. Bodyline series, boycott of SA, England / Zimbabwe, India / Pakistan
Questions:
Why did 'Bodyline' cause such a outcry?
What is the relationship between sport and politics?
Why does cricket seem to be more involved than other sports?
How effective are sporting boycotts?
TV: Bodyline (BBC documentary); Bodyline - It's just not cricket (ABC documentary); India v Pakistan: A Bat & Ball War (1999); Branded a Rebel (CNN documentary on 1983 WI tour of S.Africa)
Reading
Jon Gemmel, The politics of South African Cricket (2004)
Shaharyar Khan, Cricket Cauldron: the turbulent politics of sport in Pakistan (2013)
'Cricket's Imperial Crisis: The 1932–33 MCC Tour of Australia' Sport in Society, (2006)