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.

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He looks at the pitiful percentage of state spending on welfare in Pakistan and the social characteristics of Sri Lanka’s United National Party. He also notes the shifting of state initiatives in the west from “Sport for All” to the funding of elite athletes.