The pitch of the world: Cricket and Chris Searle

Race and Class

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 44-58

  Westall, Claire ^a   Lazarus, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beyond a Boundary; British empire; Globalisation; Inner city; Race and sport; West Indies cricket

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350215618     PISSN: 03063968     EISSN: 17413125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306396809345576     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. This article draws on the body of Chris Searle's cricket writing as it appears in Race & Class and collected in his Pitch of Life (London, Parrs Wood, 2001). The following articles are drawn from directly: 'Race before wicket: cricket, Empire and the White Rose', Race & Class (Vol. 33, no. 3, 1990), pp. 31-48.
2. 'Cricket and the mirror of racism', Race & Class (Vol. 34, no. 3, 1993), pp. 45-54.
3. 'Lara's innings: a Caribbean moment', Race & Class (Vol. 36, no. 4, 1995), pp. 31-42
4. 'Towards a cricket of the future', Race & Class (Vol. 37, no. 4, 1996), pp. 45-59;
5. '"And his name is Nasser": cricket and the Suez crisis', Race & Class (Vol. 43, no. 1, 2001), pp. 59-69
6. 'Murali's match: communalism and the Oval', Race & Class (Vol. 42, no. 4, 2001), pp. 80-86
7. These pieces are replicated in Pitch of Life but we have also drawn from its other chapters: 'Introduction', 'The echoing green: reinventing cricket', 'Devon's message', 'Pitch of life: re-reading Beyond a Boundary', 'Tall men, and lions too' and 'Cricket in print', which includes reviews of: Mike Marqusee's Anyone But England (London, Verso, 1994)
8. and War Minus the Shooting (London, Heineman, 1996)
9. Brian Lara with Brian Scovell, Beating the Field (London, Partirdge, 1995)
10. Hilary Beckles, The Development of West Indies Cricket - Vols. 1 and 2 (London, Pluto, 1998).
11. Pete Davies, Mad Dogs and Englishwomen (London, Abacus, 1998); as well as numerous others.
12. Tim Hector, Lara in cricket time and social place, Fan the Flame (9 April 1999), .
13. Imran Khan, This is the result of a weak government and the war on terror, Independent (4 March 2009), p. 5.
14. Martin Samuel, Make Pakistan a no-go zone, Daily Mail (4 March 2009), pp. 86-7.