The Making of New Zealand Cricket

This book examines the emergence and growth of cricket in relation to diverse patterns of European settlement in New Zealand - such as the systematic colonization schemes of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and the gold discoveries of the 1860s.

GREG RYAN

1. Colonisation and the export of sport 2. Diverse growth, 1840-1870 3. Fashioning a middle-class game: cricket and class, 1870-1914 5. Perpetuating the straight bat: cricket and the schools, 1860-1914 6. Uniting distant communities: interprovincial cricket, 1860-1914 7. A fragile edifice: the New Zealand Cricket Council, 1894-1914 8. Humble imitators at these distant antipodes: the imperial connection in the nineteenth century 9. A near distant neighbour: New Zealand and Australia, 1890-1914 10. More English than the English: the imperial connection in the twentieth century. Conclusion