Abstract
This chapter is a thematic account of the cricketing lifestyle university cricket exposed its young cricketers to. A major focus of the chapter being players’ reactions to their cricketing socialisation as they familiarised themselves with what a future in cricket might look and feel like. Alongside a description of the cricketing routine players were exposed to during the season, the chapter highlights the type of demands and personal adjustment required of players by their cricking aspirations.
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After the completion of his studies, Simon began a career as a professional cricket. His desired alternative was to join the army.
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The Pro 40 is a ‘List A’ (the ‘one-day’ equivalent of the ‘four-day’, first-class game) cricket competition played in by the first-class counties of England and Wales as well as a representative team from Scotland and an amateur team called the Unicorns. It has since been replaced by the Royal London On-day Cup which features only the 18 first-class counties.
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Whereas Goffman (1961) centres his analyses on residential establishments that principally revolve around involuntary membership (i.e. the psychiatric hospital), players entered the “cricket bubble” of their own accord and were, in part, responsible for its creation. The “cricket bubble” not only represented a physical world complete with settings, co-parties and behavioural routines, but a social and psychological connection with the game that became increasingly encompassing as the season wore on.
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Bowles, H.C.R. (2018). The Cricket Bubble: Notes on a Cricketing Lifestyle. In: University Cricket and Emerging Adulthood. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76282-1_3
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