To the outsider, cricket is a bafflingly genteel game. But those who know the game, know also that few sports so seethe with political tension.   In the nineteenth century, MCC Secretary Lord Harris called cricket ‘the building block of Empire’. As governor of Bombay in the 1890s, Harris introduced cricket to India to teach ‘moral lessons to the masses’. In the twentieth century it became a vehicle for forging anti-imperialist consciousness and a sense of national pride. And nowhere more […]

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