ABSTRACT
This chapter applies the theory of established-outsider relations to understanding gender in the cricket figuration. The chapter considers how Women’s Cricket has been formally integrated into the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) since 1998 and yet despite formal integration there remain differences between male and female cricketers in media coverage, pay, governance and coaching. I explore the changing balance of power between male and female cricketers in English cricket to illustrate Elias’s theory of established and outsider relations. Finally, I appraise this framework as tool for understanding power relations between groups, particularly for developing our understanding the social conditions in which knowledge is generated and developed.
