About

Neville Cardus famously asked, “What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?” Thanks to its unique structure and colonial history, cricket has always been more than cricket, and Ducking Beamers seeks to understand the ways we see and enjoy cricket beyond the willow and leather.

Not that that means there isn’t space for silly YouTube clips and groans about selection choices and on-field strategies. I am, after all, just another cricket fanatic from South Asia. There aren’t enough of us, really.