The Final Word with Gideon Haigh
The Final Word Cricket Podcast
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The Visual Economy of Cricket
The audience who was capable of seeing live cricket in Australia before the advent of mass media was vanishingly small. Now these days, players tote their statistics round like a ball and chain, don't they? But in those days, well, Gregory is another example. I don't think he even knew that he'd made the fastest 10th century until David Frith told him,. you know, in 1972, right? No idea. Those kind of records were not in common, coiny, not in common currency. And they were pretty meaningless anyway. It's a different kind of visual environment and it's a different political economy, I think, for cricket.
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