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The Rise of India

Topics to be discussed: modern dominance of the IPL, money, cricketer as ‘icon’

Questions:

Does the advent of ODIs and now T20s threaten or enhance cricket?

Is the amount of money now spent on the game in India changing cricket?

Does the 'Asian block' now dominate world cricket?

Is the celebrity status of certain cricketers a new thing?

TV (BBC Documentary); (NZ documentary); (ICC documenary); (Aus Documentary); (Indian documentary)

Reading

Amit Gupta ‘Cricket: The Indianization of an Imperial Game’ in The Oxford handbook of sports history Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson eds., (2017)

Boria Majumdar, 'The Indian Premier League and world cricket' in the Cambridge Companion to Cricket (library ebook)

Prashant Kidambi 'Hero, celebrity and icon: Sachin Tendulkar and Indian public culture' in the Cambridge Companion to Cricket (library ebook)

Richard Cashman, Patrons, players and the crowd: the phenomenon of Indian Cricket (1980)