Club - Empire, Power and the Governance of World Cricket - Rod Lyall - Hardback Bog - Pitch Publishing Ltd - 2025 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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The fascinating story of cricket’s world governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), and how it grew into a multi-billion-dollar business. From cricket journalist, historian and academic Rod Lyall. This meticulously researched and authoritative history reveals how: - Privileged aristocrats and mining magnates turned cricket into a ‘civilising’ force of empire, promoting the politics and prejudices of their class - Cricket’s world governing body evolved – from its early days in St John’s Wood, London as the Imperial Cricket Conference into the International Cricket Council, a multi-billion-dollar sporting business, based in Dubai and increasingly dominated by a financially and politically ambitious Indian elite - The ICC failed to deal effectively with such challenges as the Bodyline controversy, apartheid in South Africa and Kerry Packer’s commercialisation of the game - Media rights deals and global events sponsorship have created new problems: match-fixing, administrative corruption and the threat from franchise leagues This is the first full account of the ICC’s origins and its roots in imperialist ideology, charting its rise from a talking-shop into a multi-billion-dollar global business driven by massive worldwide TV audiences.