About Critiquing Cricket
The signature image has been kindly provided by David Colin-Thome and also graces my book Essaying Cricket. Sri Lanka and Beyond (Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2006) where a number of his photographs are available.
Photographs will be deployed in profusion within this site in order to draw the interest of readers and the section on the right panel will concentrate on this medium. The main segment will feature a number of my essays but will be embellished by other work borrowed from a variety of sites. The general focus will be on cricket and its politics with a particular emphasis on Sri Lanka. “Politics” is understood here as relations of power and thus engages interpersonal exchanges.
It is entirely appropriate that the opening stanza should lean on the American literary and political analyst, Mike Marqusee,who not only studied Bob Dylan, but mastered the intricacies of cricket, while yet developing an abiding interest in the Indian subcontinent as well as England. Do please read his latest work: If I Am Not for Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew (Verso, 2008).
- Slow Turn (Sphere, 1988) ISBN 978-0747401209
- Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock’s Labour Party (co-author with Richard Heffernan) (Verso, 1992) ISBN 978-0860915614
- War Minus the Shooting: a journey through South Asia during cricket’s World Cup (Mandarin, 1997) ISBN 978-0749323332
- Chimes of Freedom: the Politics of Bob Dylan’s Art (New Press, 2003) ISBN 978-1565848252
- Anyone but England: An Outsider Looks at English Cricket (Aurum Press, 2005) ISBN 978-1845130848
- Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (Verso Books, 2005). ISBN 978-1844675272
- Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the Sixties (Seven Stories Press, 2006) ISBN 978-1583226865.
