ABSTRACT
Just as law has survived Legal Realism and Critical Legal Studies, just as philosophy has survived the deconstruction of Derrida and Foucault, cricket has survived Bodyline and all the other contradictions of the game. Like all other games, cricket involves a tension between the game as ‘game’ and the ‘game’ as an embodiment of cultural lessons and broader messages.1 This is clearly one of the points I have tried to draw out in this book. I have tried to demonstrate that cricket is a text upon which are inscribed signs and meanings from other texts and experiences (like law) and, at the same time, to show how the lessons we learn from cricket are inscribed in other parts of our lives.
