Cricket and the Law

David Fraser
Football may be the people’s game, but the quintessentially English game of cricket has a
firm place within the public’s affection with many cricketing concepts escaping the
confines of the game to carry far broader social meanings.
Cricket and the Law charts the inter-relationship between cricket—the law of the
game, and legal theory—the law of our lives. Fraser draws fascinating connections and
commonalities between these two seemingly disparate, complex sets of conventions.
This engaging study will be enjoyed by lawyers and students of law, sport, sociology
and cultural studies, as well as cricket lovers everywhere.
David Fraser is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the School of Law, Nottingham
University, UK.

Contents
Series editor’s preface ix
Preface xi
Foreword xv
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
8 The man in white is always right: umpires, judges and rule of law of law 64
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
14 It’s not cricket: underarm bowling, legality and the meaning of life 138
15 The chucker as outlaw—legality, morality and exclusion in cricket 145
16 Murali, Shoaib and the jurisprudence of chucking 152
17 Bouncers: terror and the rule of law in cricket 186
18 Ball-tampering and the rule of law 200
19 The little master, ball-tampering and the rule of law 238
20 Delay and over-rates: temporality and the meaning of cricket 247
21 Ethical discourse, legal narrative and the meaning of cricket 255
22 You...—sledging 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
25 Capitalism and the meaning of cricket 309
26 Class struggle, old school tie and the meaning of cricket 317
27 The Hill, the members and others: the crowd as sub-text 321
28 Bodyline, postmodernism, law and the meaning of life 330
29 Conclusion: on life, law and cricket 335
Notes 337
Index 402


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