Articles by Michael Collins

Black Cricket, the College at Haringey and the England and Wales Cricket Board

How Did the “World’s Most Successful Sports Academy” Come to be Shut Down?

The Sports Council called Haringey Cricket College the “world’s most successful sports academy”. So how did the college, which produced so many world class black cricketers, come to be shut down?

The Case of Azeem Rafiq Points to a Long History of Racial Thinking in Cricket

Cricket's racialised cultural conflicts, originating in the colonial period, help us to understand more recent cases such as that of Azeem Rafiq.