LONDON: The bat utilized by KS Ranjitsinhji, well known as Ranji, to attain his unbeaten 154 in his Test debut over a century in the past in July 1896 and the ball from the notorious Bodyline England as opposed to Australia sequence of 1932–33 are a number of the iconic pieces on show at a brand new exhibition at Lord’s Cricket Ground Museum,
‘No Foreign Field: MCC and the Empire Of Cricket‘ is a documentation of the huge expansive unfold of cricket, its affiliation with the British Empire and the winds of alternate for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) over the many years.
Divided throughout segments of First Contact, Building Connections, Tours and the Imperial Bond, Conflict and Transition, the brand new exhibition which opened not too long ago is now a part of any excursion of the Lord’s floor till early subsequent 12 months.
“The story of this exhibition is essentially the global spread of cricket around the world and that tracked the spread of the British empire,” stated Neil Robinson, Head of Heritage and Collections at MCC.
“The same way that the empire was governed from London, cricket was governed from Lord’s by MCC. We look at how that sometimes caused conflict and how the power structures that were developing overseas began to draw that power balance away from Lord’s towards a new home in Asia (Dubai) where it stands today,” he defined.
The new curation on the museum makes use of items and artefacts from the MCC’s archives as a self-reflective workout that throws up some interesting insights, whole with a multimedia really feel.
“The aim is to showcase a new way of thinking about the relationship between the MCC, cricket and empire,” stated Dr Prashant Kidambi, a historian at Leicester University and creator of ‘Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey within the Age of Empire’, who collaborated at the undertaking.
“It tries to tell the story of how the MCC was implicated in cricket as an imperial game, how it played a role in the global spread of cricket and also how the club’s actions and activities generated imperial bonds but also produced conflicts,” he stated. .
“In this exhibition, for the first time, we also showcase how the MCC upheld imperial values but also articulated a rhetoric of sport as a site of equality, the idea that everybody was equal on the cricket pitch, which then became very powerful for colonized communities who tried to challenge racial hierarchies and racial exclusions,” he stated.
The exhibition charts the historical past of the sport from a historical Parsi cricket group’s excursion of England in 1886 to the current day, with the Indian Premier League (IPL) and ladies’s cricket making their mark.
‘No Foreign Field: MCC and the Empire Of Cricket‘ is a documentation of the huge expansive unfold of cricket, its affiliation with the British Empire and the winds of alternate for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) over the many years.
Divided throughout segments of First Contact, Building Connections, Tours and the Imperial Bond, Conflict and Transition, the brand new exhibition which opened not too long ago is now a part of any excursion of the Lord’s floor till early subsequent 12 months.
“The story of this exhibition is essentially the global spread of cricket around the world and that tracked the spread of the British empire,” stated Neil Robinson, Head of Heritage and Collections at MCC.
“The same way that the empire was governed from London, cricket was governed from Lord’s by MCC. We look at how that sometimes caused conflict and how the power structures that were developing overseas began to draw that power balance away from Lord’s towards a new home in Asia (Dubai) where it stands today,” he defined.
The new curation on the museum makes use of items and artefacts from the MCC’s archives as a self-reflective workout that throws up some interesting insights, whole with a multimedia really feel.
“The aim is to showcase a new way of thinking about the relationship between the MCC, cricket and empire,” stated Dr Prashant Kidambi, a historian at Leicester University and creator of ‘Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey within the Age of Empire’, who collaborated at the undertaking.
“It tries to tell the story of how the MCC was implicated in cricket as an imperial game, how it played a role in the global spread of cricket and also how the club’s actions and activities generated imperial bonds but also produced conflicts,” he stated. .
“In this exhibition, for the first time, we also showcase how the MCC upheld imperial values but also articulated a rhetoric of sport as a site of equality, the idea that everybody was equal on the cricket pitch, which then became very powerful for colonized communities who tried to challenge racial hierarchies and racial exclusions,” he stated.
The exhibition charts the historical past of the sport from a historical Parsi cricket group’s excursion of England in 1886 to the current day, with the Indian Premier League (IPL) and ladies’s cricket making their mark.