'The Club: Empire, Power and the Governance of World Cricket' is an unsparing look into the ills of global cricket governance

'The Club: Empire, Power and the Governance of World Cricket' is an unsparing look into the ills of global cricket governance

Most histories of the game focus on its pastoral charm, innate beauty and its cast of talented and often eccentric heroes. I’ve read many of those and enjoyed them. But never before has an author squarely and unflinchingly addressed the governance of the game and exposed how the decisions of a select few have dictated how cricket has developed and the state it finds itself in now. In ‘The Club’ Rod Lyall has filled that gap in the cricketing can…