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A Socialist Examination of Cricket

Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game, 1945-2017
Stephen Wagg
(Routledge)

Stephen Wagg has set himself the ambitious task of writing a definitive political history of contemporary cricket.

His study of politics considers, among many things, the impact of the Dutch Reformed Church on initiating apartheid in South Africa and how in 2016 CARICOM (the twenty-strong free trade association of Caribbean nations) called for a dissolution of the West Indies Cricket Board. 

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