University Cricket and Emerging Adulthood "Days in the Dirt" /

• Main Author: Bowles, Harry C. R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Social groups.; Family.; Developmental psychology.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Developmental Psychology.

This book provides a detailed ethnographic account of the lives and experiences of a group of male, university-based academy cricketers transitioning into (and away) from professional sport. Set in one of the six university centres of cricket excellence established by the England and Wales Cricket B...

Table of Contents:

• Preface: An Insider to the Context
• Chapter 1: Introduction: A Day in the Dirt
• Chapter 2: Mr Cricket: The Story of a Cricket Aficionado
• Chapter 3: The Cricket Bubble: Notes on a Cricketing Lifestyle
• Chapter 4: Lady Cricket: From Flirtation to Cohabitation
• Chapter 5: Finding Their Level: Trial and Repudiation of a Cricketing Identity
• Chapter 6: Conclusion: University Cricket and Emerging Adulthood. - Epilogue: Where are They Now?