Status Updates From Anyone But England: An Outs...

To the Pakistanis the demand for neutral umpires seemed a logical response to the accusations that their own umpires were 'cheating.' To the English it was a declaration of war.

Ironically, the very consumer capitalism which stripped cricket of a live audience and seemed to threaten its survival has proved the sport's salvation.

The Englishness is in the lie, in the cult of the honest yeomen and the village green, in the denial of cricket's origins in commerce, politics, patronage and an urban society. The tyranny of mere wealth, on which the English eighteenth-century achievement rested, had to be wrapped in something finer and, at least in appearance, older.

Other potential sponsors told the WCA (Women's Cricket Association of England) that women's cricket didn't receive enough television coverage or that its image was not suitable for the sponsor's products. At one point the English women were advised that they would get more television exposure if they played scantily clad. 🤬

Chapter 6 & 7

Chapter 5

Chapter 4

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Introduction & Chapter 1