Cricket

New Zealand young gun Amelia Kerr has opened up about her mental health challenges, her love of the game and the much-debated run out of England's Charlie ...

Kerr said that while she wouldn’t do it herself that “it’s in the laws of the game … Kerr has been spending her limited free time working on a new mental health initiative of her own – Out of the Rough – and has applauded the likes of fellow cricketers who have helped in “normalising” the conversation. “I’m in a place with cricket where I don’t get too high or too down on cricket because I know it’s a bit of a rollercoaster of a game, so you've got to stay level,” Kerr told the 100% Cricket Podcast.

MCC's U-turn over Eton-Harrow is symptomatic of a sport that has always been run along class lines.

As much as the semi-professional leagues of the Midlands and the north of England acted as a summer equivalent to the Football League, an organisation called the Club Cricket Conference went as far as banning cup and league competition in the South after 1918. Rowland Bowen stated as long ago as 1970 that English cricket "has no chance" of shedding its elitist pretentions "so long as the higher administration of the game remains in the hands of people heavily imbued with that background and those ideas". In that, meritocracy rather than nepotism, inclusivity rather than exclusivity, must be the basis of English cricket's future. And yet, despite 15 of the 18 first-class counties professing to be "member-owned", they remain a disparate force. Significantly, the game's (largely unknown) history provides a model for a more meritocratic, and socially and racially open, future. The rules (Laws, as cricket insists), cultures and structures of sport are often the result of (in cricket and rugby certainly) hard-fought cultural wars over which group - invariably social class - a sport serves. As the author Alec Waugh (Sherborne) argued in the Cricketer in 1922: " The Hundred may well be the most prominent elephant in the room. All sports, across their respective regions, are socially constructed, and as far as cricket in England is concerned, the game's "posh" image, like that of football as a "people's game", is no accident of history. It was a move that created the world's first objectively modern sport, and the various cricket associations quickly followed suit. [[Richard] Nyren](https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/richard-nyren-18182)'s game is no longer entertained for a few. [Mike Marqusee revealed](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/rob-steen-on-mike-marqusee-the-american-who-became-a-cricket-writer-821059)in his classic, Anyone but England (1994): "…

Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Local cricket fans around the country are scathing about a new scoring system imposed by Cricket NZ whi.

The system is clearly not ready to handle cricket yet!" If you've got something that works well, why change it?" Wellington club, Hutt Districts, says it won't be making the switch. Shambles." "Diabolical at a Community Cricket level. Another user said: "Can't see a live score.