Gramsci and the crisis in English cricket
As far as I know Gramsci, the Italian Marxist jailed by Mussolini had no interest in cricket.
He was however very good at analysing a crisis. He wrote in his Prison Notebooks:
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
This does rather seem to sum up the state of English cricket at the moment as the issue of racism in the game at very long last at least begin to be grappled with.
The crisis is just beginning and there will be more morbid symptoms before the new can be born and steps towards an anti-racist cricket culture in administration, the dressing room and to some extent in the stands can make progress.
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