The Club

ebook ∣ Class, Power and the Governance of World Cricket

By Rod Lyall

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ebook

ISBN

9781801509503

Author

Rod Lyall

Publisher

Pitch Publishing Ltd

Release

24 March 2025

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Sports & Recreations Nonfiction

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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.

    Format

    ebook

    ISBN

    9781801509503

    Author

    Rod Lyall

    Publisher

    Pitch Publishing Ltd

    Release

    24 March 2025

    Share

    Subjects

    Sports & Recreations Nonfiction
    The Club