Post by Birkbeck Sport Business Centre

Tomorrow evening, Monday 22nd June, 6pm-8pm, in the B36 Lecture Theatre in Birkbeck's main building in Torrington Square, London WC1E 7HX, the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre is hosting the following public seminar: CRICKET'S NEW IMPERIALISM: HOW AN ENGLISH COLONIAL SPORT BECAME INDIAN'S POLITICAL TOO. The event will not be accessible on-line but there are still places left for those who would like to attend face-to-face. The event, presented by sportswriter Emma John, historian Dr Prashant Kidambi, and Simon Hughes, the well-known cricket analyst, will examine how a sport that was the exclusive preserve of England’s elite – run by the Marylebone Cricket Club from its private ground in north-west London, and used to educate and manipulate Britain’s colonies – has become geopolitical soft power in the hands of the formerly colonised. As The Hundred is privatised and sold off to IPL brands owned by Indian billionaires, how much of the English game will survive? For details of how to register to attend the event (which is free) see the LINK below: https://lnkd.in/eZXaW45C