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
Introduction | 1 |
The legal theory of cricket | 15 |
Lord Denning cricket law and the meaning of life | 21 |
Dante cricket law and the meaning of life | 26 |
Laws not rules or cricket as adjudication | 30 |
Law codes and the spirit of the game | 40 |
More law and the spirit of the game | 52 |
The man in white is always right umpires judges and the rule of law | 69 |
Bouncers terror and the rule of law in cricket | 201 |
Balltampering and the rule of law | 216 |
The little master balltampering and the rule of law | 257 |
Delay and overrates temporality and the meaning of cricket | 267 |
Ethical discourse legal narrative and the meaning of cricket | 276 |
Yousledging and cricket as ethical discourse | 280 |
Walking the judicial function and the meaning of law | 296 |
Other stories about cricket law and the meaning of life | 306 |
Umpires decisions and the rule of law | 84 |
The man in white is always right but he is not always neutral | 107 |
Technology adjudication and law | 112 |
Leg before wicket causation and the rule of law | 125 |
Mankad Javed Hilditch Sarfraz and the rule of law | 133 |
Its not cricket underarm bowling legality and the meaning of life | 148 |
The chucker as outlaw legality morality and exclusion in cricket | 156 |
Murali Shoaib and the jurisprudence of chucking | 164 |