Major sports events, image projection and the problems of 'semi-periphery': A case study of the 1996 South Asia Cricket World Cup

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1263-1276

  Dimeo, Paul ^a   Kay, Joyce ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL WAR; COMMERCIALIZATION; POLITICAL INSTABILITY; SPORT;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 33746442445     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: 13602241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014365904200281267     Document Type: Article

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1. We are thinking here of such cases as the Scotland-Ireland joint bid for the 2008 football European Championships which ran into difficulties because of a lack of internal cohesion within the Irish sports policy community.
2. For a critical and insightful account that sets this in historical context, see S Sen, 'Enduring colonialism in cricket: From Ranjitsinhji to the Cronje affair', Contemporary South Asia, 10 (2), 2001, pp 237-250.
3. J Bale & M Cronin, Sport and Postcolonialism, Oxford: Berg, 2002.
4. Williams tackles the complexities of cricket's 'globalisation': 'In the 1980s and 1990s cricket had been a cultural space where the Pakistani desire for decolonisation had clashed with the residual white English assumptions of moral superiority which had validated imperial power, but paradoxically Asian leadership in international cricket has resulted in cricket becoming a force for Western cultural imperialism, even though this was a form of cultural imperialism with which English cricket felt uneasy. The tensions of England/Pakistani cricket in the late twentieth century do much to highlight the complexities and contradictions of the postcolonial condition.' J Williams, 'Paki cheats! Postcolonial tensions in England-Pakistani cricket', in Bale & Cronin, Sport and Postcolonialism.
5. M Roche, Mega-events and Modernity: Olympics and Expos in the Growth of Global Culture, London: Routledge, 2000.
6. For more on this debate see H Lenskyj, The Best Olympics Ever? Social Impacts of Sydney 2000, New York: SUNY Press, 2002.
7. Another example of contested knowledge is that of economic impact analysis. See J L Crompton, 'Economic impact analysis of sports facilities and events: Eleven sources of misapplication', Journal of Sports Management, 9 (1), 1995, pp 14-35.
8. R Winder, Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey, London: Orion, 1999.
9. R Winder, 'Sticks and stones and mobile phones', Independent, 24 February 1996. Winder wrote several lengthy and reflective pieces for the Independent and later published a monograph on the 1996 CWC. Winder, Hell for Leather.
10. A Lee, 'India weighs up price of fame', The Times, 15 March 1996.
11. A Lee, 'World celebration sinks in a quagmire of greed', The Australian, 20 March 1996. Lee was one of the most important contributors to the international press coverage, having several articles in the London Times and in The Australian.
12. R Winder, 'Cricket's new order is happy to embrace the commercial age', Independent, 13 February 1996.
13. R Reed, 'Cup jinx hits as Aussies fly out', Adelaide Advertiser, 10 February 1996.
14. K Rutherford, 'Cup cricket strife? It's hardly surprising', Truth (Auckland), 16 February 1996.
15. L Campbell, 'Oh! Calcutta!', Adelaide Advertiser, 15 March 1996.
16. P Roebuck, 'Mob not to blame for India's shame', The Sunday Times, 17 March 1996.
17. R Craddock, 'Riots end Indian hopes of second cup tournament', Courier Mail (Queensland), 15 March 1996.
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20. V Marks, 'Mind games tilting balance of terror', Observer, 4 February 1996.
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22. S Wilde, 'Why trouble has dogged World Cup from start', The Times, 7 February 1996.
23. R Reed, 'Foul-ups make World Cup audience squirm', Courier Mail, 13 February 1996.
24. A Lee, 'Riches in store after the ridicule', The Times, 12 February 1996.
25. R Reed, 'Solidarity in shadow of truck bomb find', Adelaide Advertiser, 14 February 1996.
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27. Rutherford, 'Cup cricket strife?'.
28. J Thicknesse, 'Threat to Gough', Evening Standard (London), 23 February 1996.
29. M Walters, 'And they call it cricket', Daily Mirror, 29 February 1996.
30. 'Beyond a boundary', The Times, 9 March 1996.
31. A Lee, 'World Cup in the line of fire', The Times, 9 March 1996.
32. 'Violence ends cricket's World Cup semi-final', Washington Post, 14 March 1996.
33. P Roebuck, 'Mob not to blame for India's shame', The Sunday Times, 17 March 1996.
34. Telegraph (Calcutta),14 March 1996.
35. 'Cricket: World Cup riot was waiting to happen', Guardian, 14 March 1996.
36. 'Chaos shadows Sri Lanka's hour of triumph', The Australian, 19 March 1996.
37. Lee, 'World celebration sinks in quagmire of greed'.
38. Winder, Hell for Leather, p 23.
39. Ibid, pp 20-21.