Breaking New Ground: A Historical Exploration of Women’s Cricket in India, 1973–1991

Krishna, Ashish and Bhattacharya, Amitendu (2025) Breaking New Ground: A Historical Exploration of Women’s Cricket in India, 1973–1991. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 42 (3). ISSN 1743-9035

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Abstract

The history of men’s cricket in India has been the subject of rigorous academic and popular studies over the years. Most of these works inherently assume that cricket implies men’s cricket since histories, narratives, statistics, and stories of the men’s game are appropriated as that of the sport in general. Consequently, women’s cricket is either sidelined, disparaged, or completely ignored. This paper explores the history of women’s cricket in India. Briefly revisiting women’s cricket in the colonial period, the paper focusses on the period 1973–1991 that witnessed a sudden rise as well as a sharp decline of women’s cricket in India. A focus on women’s cricket history aids in women’s sport reclaiming its deserved place in the annals of sport history, illuminating the resistance and defiance of women cricketers against the patriarchal system that worked against them. These illuminations are not constrained as surface-level dissonances but seek to challenge and thwart ideological underpinnings that apportion a central and ubiquitous role to masculinity in sport.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Krishna, Ashish and Bhattacharya, Amitendu
Document Language:	Language English
Uncontrolled Keywords:	history; India; peripheralization; postcolonial; Women’s cricket
Subjects:	Social sciences
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bhopal > Arts and Sciences
Full Text Status:	None
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/6514
Publisher URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/

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