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The US may have beaten a cricketing giant in Pakistan, but moving the game forward will be an even sterner challenge.
Tickets are going for as high as $40,000 on the secondary market.
Steve Smith is the latest signing for the second season of Major League Cricket in the US. It’s another intriguing shift in the global cricket landscape.
From what sports you can watch with an old aerial, to what apps you’ll see when you switch on a new smart TV – sports lovers can expect big changes ahead.
When Six Nations’ broadcasting deal with the BBC and ITV ends in 2025, there are fears the tournament could move to a subscription service.
India changed its visa rules after the 2008 Mumbai massacre to make it more difficult for Pakistanis to visit.
The climate crisis poses an existential threat to cricket. Governing bodies like New Zealand Cricket need to up their sustainability game.
Summer in Australia is often set to the soundtrack of a Test cricket match. That sentimentality can get in the way of seeing cricket for what it is: a hyper-commercial cash machine.
This is South Africa’s fifth semi-final at the tournament. Is 2023 the year they reach the finals and win?
Why the speed of fast bowling in cricket seems to have stalled.
Statistics show how a change of approach by England’s team marks a dramatic break with the history of Test cricket.
Season 3 of Bluey features an episode called Cricket, in which Bandit explains to Bluey why cricket is much more than just hitting a ball around the grass
The laws by which the game is played are laid out in black and white. The ‘spirit of cricket’, however, is a much more nebulous concept.
We found that class prejudice is extensive in cricket. Racism is still entrenched. Women are marginalised and routinely experience sexism and misogyny.
The ‘nervous nineties’ captures the idea that batters with 90 or more runs become anxious as get close to scoring a century. But is it true?
Bazball is aggressively attacking, highly entertaining and piles pressure on opponents by scoring runs quickly.
It is time, combined with an uncertain outcome, that leads us to experience anxiety.
While playing the old enemy for the Ashes is for many the pinnacle of Australian cricket, Australia-India is developing as a modern rivalry.
Cricket was a significant bridge between England and ‘home’ in the Caribbean, making the sport an important part of the black Atlantic cultural exchange.
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Head Of Department in Department of Sport & Event Management, Bournemouth University
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Sport Ethics, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Journalism, Swansea University
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Associate Professor in Sport Psychology and Safe Sport, Bournemouth University
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Lecturer, James Cook University
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Distinguished Fellow, Australia-India Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality Management, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor of Media and Communications, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow, School of PEMS, UNSW Sydney
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Reader in Sociology of Sport, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor - Perception, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Politics, University of Sussex
