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The Club
- Empire, Power and the Governance of World Cricket
Af: Rod Lyall
Engelsk Hardback
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The Club
- Empire, Power and the Governance of World Cricket
Af: Rod Lyall
Engelsk Hardback

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The fascinating story of cricket’s world governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), and how it grew into a multi-billion-dollar business.

From cricket journalist, historian and academic Rod Lyall.

This meticulously researched and authoritative history reveals how:

  • Privileged aristocrats and mining magnates turned cricket into a ‘civilizing’ force of empire, promoting the politics and prejudices of their class
  • Cricket’s world governing body evolved – from its early days in St John’s Wood, London as the Imperial Cricket Conference into the International Cricket Council, a multi-billion-dollar sporting business, based in Dubai and increasingly dominated by a financially and politically ambitious Indian elite
  • The ICC failed to deal effectively with such challenges as the Bodyline controversy, apartheid in South Africa and Kerry Packer’s commercialization of the game
  • Media rights deals and global events sponsorship have created new problems: match-fixing, administrative corruption and the threat from franchise leagues

This is the first full account of the ICC’s origins and its roots in imperialist ideology, charting its rise from a talking-shop into a multi-billion-dollar global business driven by massive worldwide TV audiences.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9781801509503
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1801509506
Udg. Dato:
24 mar 2025
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
224mm
Højde:
144mm
Forlag:
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Oplagsdato:
24 mar 2025
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