Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The "gentleman's game"cricket has long since retained a specialised niche in English literature which can be accounted to the unique culture of the sport which emphasizes on ideals like grace, sportsmanship, character and complexity.Making use of these ideals Cricket has persistently made inroads into various forms of literature ranging from Victorian Literature to the recent cricket fictions from Australia and New Zealand.While today"s reading fraternity may be enjoying the recent releases of Cric fictions Jock Serong's The Rules of Backyard Cricket (2016) or W. J. Foote's Poetry in Motion: The Tragic Tale of the Pukemanu Prodigy, New Zealand's Greatest Slow Bowler (2003), one cannot help but only contemplate the thought process of the legendary Charles Dickens who first ventured to include a brief description of a cricket match between the All-Muggleton team and the Dingley Dell Cricket Club in his famous novel The Pickwick Papers.Albeit,Cricket being the official summer sport in England, it is the fast-gaining popularity of this sport in South Asia that is drawing global attention.This popularity is not merely as a sport, but as a platform for various ventures, the most commonly sought medium being literature in the form of cric fiction.The onus of this amalgamation can be accounted to the tendency of fiction to sneak into cricket anecdotes and prevalence of writers equipped with the gifted literary skills to connect the game of cricket with the reality beyond the boundary fence.Today"s game of cricket surpasses political, socio-cultural, religious and geographical divides.It has the potential of being an effective catalyst towards social cohesion, unity, excitement and integration.The global diffusion of this sport not only facilitates the development of an identity at the individual, local or national level, but is also
Author: Micky Barua
Institution: Vidyalankar Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4406035514