Description
Cricket is often seen as a sport of tradition, fair play and gentlemanly values, but its history tells a more complex story.
Join cricket historian, Peter Oborne, for a fascinating discussion exploring how cricket has always been shaped by power, from its origins as an 18th-century commercial spectacle tied to gambling to its reinvention in Victorian Britain as a tool of discipline and moral order.
Oborne traces how the game was exported through empire, taking root across the world in dramatically different ways and becoming entangled with class, race and identity. As modern cricket is transformed by the wealth of competitions such as the Indian Premier League, has the sport come full circle?
About the Author
Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster. Formerly chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph, Oborne now writes for Middle East Eye and Byline Times. Oborne’s books include The Rise of Political Lying, The Assault on Truth, The Fate of Abraham, Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza as well as his latest book, Full Circle: A History of Cricket, published in 2026.
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