Table of Contents

1. South African Cricket: Revival and Turmoil 2. England and its Cricketscape: In Decline or On the Up? 3. Trials and Tribulations: The Story of New Zealand Cricket 4. Cricket in Sri Lanka: In Need of a Messiah 5. Apocalypse? The Rise and Fall of the West Indies 6. An Ambiguous Legacy: Australia and the 2003 World Cup 7. India: An Unnatural Cricketing Nation 8. Zimbabwe Cricket: A Challenge Almost Won 9. South Africa and the 2003 World Cup: A Nationalist Perspective 10. Relaying the Pitch: Structural Changes in English Cricket 11. Money Tames Cricket 12. The Indian Spectator: A Grandstand View 13. Match-Fixing: A Dead Enemy?

About the Author

Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes Scholar, is currently Deputy Director of the International Research Center for Sport, Socialisation and Society, De Montfort University, Bedford. A visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago and a fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2004), he has completed his doctorate on the Social History of Indian Cricket at St. John's College, Oxford University. Deputy Executive Academic Editor of the
International Journal of the history of Sport (Routledge) and Series Editor, Sport in the South Asian Society (Yoda Press), his publications include, Twenty Two Yards to Freedom-(Penguin Viking) Once Upon
a Furore: Controversies of Indian Cricket, (forthcoming, 2004), Sport in South Asian Society- Past and Present (co-edited with J.A. Mangan), Routledge, 2004, The Oxford Companion of Indian Cricket, OUP (Forthcoming).