Has racism on the Australian cricket field changed?
An unnoticed implication of the recent unusual weather patterns was that for many of us in the cricketing community there were unfortunate implications. My team, for instance, was knocked out of the running for the championship due to our games being washed out. While reminiscing about this with the current skipper of the team the discussion drifted on to the progress of the young 'uns in the team and some of the rather unsavoury events of the season, as these conversation usual do. The topic of sledging on the field by one of the clubs young ‘uns came up with potential disciplinary action being required. This got me thinking about how much the conduct on the cricket field has changed in Australia over the years and yet, in many ways it's still where we were 30 years ago. Close to thirty years ago, when I first migrated to Australia one didn't really see many sub-continental (or any non-Anglo Saxon really) on the cricket field. It was quite unusual for a team to have even o...