Student-Led Cricket Matches as a Product of Coaching/Mentoring

An Autoethnographic Account

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Kieran James Senior Lecturer, University of the West of Scotland, UK kieran.james99@yahoo.co.uk

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autoethnography; cricket; Foucault; negative effects of coaching; subjugated knowledges; youth sport
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Abstract

Using a historical, autoethnographic approach in this article, we discuss six student-led cricket matches that we organized in Perth, Australia, from 1979 to 1981. From a Foucauldian perspective, we present these games as a student-led resistance against the normalizing and disciplinary processes of official school and youth cricket. The original scoresheets and match summaries exist both then and now only as subjugated knowledges. As these matches’ two captains, we attribute the positive atmosphere, which encouraged such creative initiatives, as being partly due to one class teacher's vision and ethos, which contrasted with the toxic hypermasculinity of the other men teachers. Through a look at our student-led cricket matches of 1979–1981, we recall memories of whiteness within a socially conservative and overall pro-British cultural context.

Contributor Notes

Kieran James is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland (Paisley Campus). He researches on Fiji soccer history, Indonesian popular music, men and masculinities, Singapore politics, sport history, and the sociology of sport. He recently published an article in Soccer & Society on Fiji soccer history. Email: kieran.james99@yahoo.co.uk | ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6953-484X

Simon Elliott is a writer and designer and has been the Creative Director of the Globe Advertising and Design for 30 years. He pastors the Big Table Church in South Perth, Western Australia. Email: simon@the-globe.com.au

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Keywords:
autoethnography; cricket; Foucault; negative effects of coaching; subjugated knowledges; youth sport
Print Publication Date:
01 Jun 2023
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01 Jun 2023
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