Cricket Australia
suhass997. (2015, March 1). How Australia became the global superpower of cricket! Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7knZ68mglo
Australia's ascendency from the days of Bodyline to being the present day Superpower in World Cricket!
Cricket West Indies
suhass997. (2015, October 20). Bravo West Indies - Champions. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JcPlfET-Bw&t=0s
From the early 20th century to the present day, this details how the West Indies cricket team went on to beat their colonial masters and how they went on to dominate world cricket throughout the 70s,80s and 90s up to present day and win two consecutive world cups in 1975 and 1979.
Introduction
- Cricket. (2016). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://school.eb.com.au.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/levels/high/article/108488
Cricket, England’s national summer sport, which is now played throughout the world, particularly in Australia, India, Pakistan, the West Indies, and the British Isles.
International Cricket Council
- International Cricket Council. (2016). About ICC. Retrieved from http://www.icc-cricket.com/about/44/about-icc
As a leading global sport, cricket will captivate and inspire people of every age, gender, background and ability while building bridges between continents, countries and communities.
Cricket History
- BBC. (n.d.). The history of cricket. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1157_cricket_history/index.shtmlIn its infancy, cricket was very much an English sport but with the British Empire growing fast, many expatriates took the game with them to such far-flung places as Australia, Africa, the Caribbean and India. This website explores the origins of cricket from England to Australia, New Zealand, Africa, West Indies, India and Pakistan and South Asia.
- Pugh, S., Gibbons, K. & Adams, C. (2002). Cricket: The sport of the empire. Retrieved from http://web.uvic.ca/vv/student/cricket/frameset.htmlTo this day, cricket stands throughout the world as a symbol of the values and mores of British Imperialism. What role did cricket play in Victoria during the colonial period? The following pages examine this question and more. You can find your way between the different sections of this site by clicking on the icons found in the navigation bar at the top of each page.
Culture
- Hardwick, P. (2016). Cricket a constant between cultures. Chronicle (Toowoomba). p. 8.SOME of us are born here; some of us move here because of family or work, but Fahad Mujeeb chose to live in Toowoomba.
- (2016, February 9). Cricket embraces all cultures. Northern Daily Leader. p. 22.Tamworth District Cricket Association is inviting all and sundry to a first-ever Multi Cultural Super 8s Come And Try Cricket Day at the Riverside ovals this Sunday.
- Sampson, D. (2009). Culture, 'race' and discrimination in the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2009(2), 44-60.
As a consequence of John Mulvaney's important historical research, the Aboriginal cricket and performance tour of Britain in 1868 has in recent decades become established as perhaps the most famous of all public events in contact history involving Aborigines, white settlers and the British metropolis.
Commercial Partners
- Cricket Australia. (2016). Commercial Partners. Retrieved from http://www.cricketaustralia.com.au/about/partners/commercialhttp://www.cricketaustralia.com.au/about/partners/commercial