Playing the Game?: Cricket's Tarnished Ideals from Bodyline to the Present

by Mark Peel

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785314378
• ISBN13: 9781785314377
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages