Court and bowled : tales of cricket and the law / James Wilson.

London : Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2014.

1st edition

86179

Cricket.

Sports -- Law and legislation -- England.

Sports -- Law and legislation -- Wales.

Chapter 1. The beginnings

Chapter 2. The Victorians

Chapter 3. The demon drink

Chapter 4. The drugs

Chapter 5. The deaths

Chapter 6. The money

Chapter 7. The despots

Chapter 8. The revolutionary : Mr Packer goes to the High Court

Chapter 9. The libels, part I : the players

Chapter 10. The libels, part II : the ball-tampering controversies

Chapter 11. Ball-tampering and Law 42

Chapter 12. The libels, part III : the trials of Lalit Modi

Chapter 13. The fixers

Chapter 14. The nationals

Chapter 15. The neighbours

Chapter 16. Crime on the field

Chapter 17. The laws of the game : the spirit and the letter

Chapter 18. The umpire is always right

Chapter 19. Drawing stumps.

This book delivers on its promise, serving the reader with a collection of tales about cricket broadly related in some way or another to the law. This book will be of interest not only to those with a keen interest in cricket, but to any reader who will enjoy a well written and lively collection of tales often as much about human failings and politics as about cricket. Of those stories, none is better known to lawyers than Lord Denning's tribute to the delights of village cricket in his Lordship's judgment in Miller v Jackson, refusing relief to the hapless newcomers who happened to have built their home abutting the village cricket ground. In this book Wilson moves from tale to tale in a thematic way between tales including about 'the Demon Drink', England's brush with apartheid South Africa in the Basil D'Oliveira affair ('the Despots'), Kerry Packer's battle with the ICC in the late 1970's with World Series Cricket ('the Revolutionary') and a number of infamous libel actions ('The Libels'). The final chapters then seek to draw upon the legal themes discussed, consider the spirit and law of cricket itself, and expresses the author's thoughts on a number of controversial subjects, including the role of umpires in the technological age.

Included bibliographical references and index.

9780854901401

xxi, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm