Abstract
This chapter explores the changing nature of players’ emotional and motivational connection with the game under the metaphor of a romantic attachment. Amidst the transformation of their cricketing experiences, deciding on whether they still ‘loved’ cricket, and to what level of the game their affections applied, was part of a process of interaction that saw players challenge the idea of becoming professional cricketers according to how gratifying cricket had become. The psychological toing and froing between past, present and future meanings of cricket provides the narrative arc to the chapter.
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The point at which a bowler begins his or her run-up to the wicket.
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An annual cricket reference book—colloquially known as the ‘Cricket Bible’—published in the UK. It contains statistical records and match reports of all first-class, List A and t20 cricket played in England and Wales over a single calendar year, as well as a number of articles on cricket related topics.
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“Clubby” was a term used in reference to run-of-the-mill ‘club’ cricketers.
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A term used by the respondent group in connection with playing cricket for money.
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Bowles, H.C.R. (2018). Lady Cricket: From Flirtation to Cohabitation. In: University Cricket and Emerging Adulthood. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76282-1_4
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