Migrant Tests: The Experience of Migrant Cricketers in the Australian Cricket Pathway

This thesis examines the development of multiculturalism in Australia through the lens of Australian cricket, revealing the tensions between elements of Australian society which seek to retain links with an Anglo-Australian history (represented in this thesis by the Australian Cricket Board), and the growing numbers of migrants who seek to maintain their own cultural identity in a new country. It establishes the importance of cricket as an Australian cultural institution together with its historical positioning in Australian culture, and examines how the governing body of the sport addressed the apparent lack of cultural inclusiveness in its representative Test team. It lso reveals from the perspective of some migrants involved in the sport how they have dealt with the power of the cricket authority to manage the way they participate.Submitted in the fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University of the Sunshine Coast, 2016