Cricket and the Law: The Man in White is Always RightCricket, law and the meaning of life ... In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket’s defining controversies – bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among many others – David Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and social order in cricket. Cricket and the Law charts the interrelationship between cricket and legal theory – between the law of the game and the law of our lives – and demonstrates how cricket’s cultural conventions can escape the confines of the game to carry far broader social meanings. This engaging study will be enjoyed by lawyers, students of culture and cricket lovers everywhere. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 The legal theory of cricket | 14 |
3 Lord Denning cricket law and the meaning of life | 20 |
4 Dante cricket law and the meaning of life | 24 |
5 Laws not rules or cricket as adjudication | 28 |
6 Law codes and the spirit of the game | 37 |
7 More law and the spirit of the game | 48 |
umpires judges and the rule of law | 64 |
terror and the rule of law in cricket | 186 |
18 Balltampering and the rule of law | 200 |
19 The little master balltampering and the rule of law | 238 |
temporality and the meaning of cricket | 247 |
21 Ethical discourse legal narrative and the meaning of cricket | 255 |
22 Yousledging and cricket as ethical discourse | 258 |
23 Walking the judicial function and the meaning of law | 273 |
24 Other stories about cricket law and the meaning of life | 282 |
9 Umpires decisions and the rule of law | 78 |
10 The man in white is always right but he is not always neutral | 99 |
11 Technology adjudication and law | 104 |
12 Leg before wicket causation and the rule of law | 116 |
13 Mankad Javed Hilditch Sarfraz and the rule of law | 124 |
underarm bowling legality and the meaning of life | 138 |
15 The chucker as outlawlegality morality and exclusion in cricket | 145 |
16 Murali Shoaib and the jurisprudence of chucking | 152 |
Common terms and phrases
action adjudication allegations appeal argue assert Atherton Australian cricket ball-tampering bat and ball batsman batter behaviour Bodyline bouncer bowling breach captain Chappell cheating chucker chucking clearly Code of Conduct complex context controversy crease CricInfo Cronje Daily Telegraph Darrell Hair debate delivery dismissal England English ethical norms example fact fast bowler fielder fielding side game of cricket Guardian Hansie Cronje Ian Chappell illegal interpretive community issues Jack Pollard judicial jurisdiction jurisprudential Laws of Cricket legal and ethical Mankading Match Referee meaning Meckiff Mike Selvey moral Murali no-ball offence One-Day Pakistani Peter Roebuck Phil Wilkins pitch players playing the game practice provisions question Ranatunga replay rule of law Shoaib simply sledging South African spirit sport Sri Lankan stumps Sydney Morning Herald tampering television Test match third umpire throwing tour umpire’s decision violation Waugh West Indian West Indies wicket Zealand