Johnny Mullagh as the Leading Figure of the Australian Cricket

Australia’s sporting identity defines Australia as a multicultural society. When Australia begun expressing their power in cricket they put themselves against Britain identifying themselves as more fit and active. As Cricket became an important role in Australia’s identity, a community was brought together and formed an extensive cultural influence on other sports teams around Australia or the world. Cricket has influenced Australia’s sportingly identity through a cultural aspect, after an Australian cricket team had been formed many other sports lined up with the same influence. Australia had an advantage of space in the cricket spectrum, the climate gave Australians the opportunity to play cricket all year round while the British team had the disadvantage of unfortunate weather changes. Throughout the different Australian cultures cricket teams were made up of indigenous beings as well, changing the role and overtaking the Cricket identity of Britain. From being played in a homes back yard to in an Olympic stadium the tradition of Cricket has made a statement in Australia’s sporting identity.

Identity

Although the aim of winning in cricket is still the same with scoring runs and taking wickets, many changes have been made in the way Cricket is played. One of the biggest improvements for batsmen whilst playing cricket was the introduction of covered pitches which was introduced in the 1960’s. Underarm bowling was used until 1864, The MCC began to allow the overarm bowling which then became very common. Underarm bowling was then banned in all cricket in 1981 and nowadays modern rules do not allow bowling arms bent more the 15 degrees. The helmets worn during a game of cricket have been redesigned multiple times. The helmets were introduced when accidents began to happen causing broken bones. The first helmet used was a large motorcycle helmet to prevent damage to the head. In 1992, on-field umpires were able to watch close runs and stumpings while watching a TV replay. Umpires could also check whether a ball had hit the ground before being caught which caused much drama.

Clarify

Difference in pay from men cricket players to women cricket players is still an issue to this day. Men and women who are playing the exact same sport with no differences are being payed different amounts each year with women earning much less. It is thought that men should be payed more since the game of cricket was originally only played and introduced by men but majority of Australians disagree. It was only recently that women cricket players payments increased from $7.5 million to $55.2 million. Currently cricket boards are not transparent in relation to the payment of individual male cricket players.

Summarise

At the moment disabled cricket playing is not played publicly as it is a very complex game with many different actions. Although we haven’t introduced disabled cricket playing there are games that may be played where the batsmen is blind but it isn’t very common. Playing cricket blind uses different techniques and the cricket ball must have some type of sound connected to it so the blind can recognise when its time to swing their bat but this is still a very complicated task.

Investigate

Cricket is a very popular sport played all over the world with a great history spreading across the southern and northern hemisphere. Cricket also has a big deal of cultural significance and is very important in the modern day world. To create and understand the cultural significance of cricket, the history of the sport is most important. Cricket began small and over years grew a large amount of new rules and popularity. The sport brought different nations with countries and empires competing against each other and certain teams traveling the world. The sport united all nations and was spread through one team reaching out and involving all different cultures who then fell in love with the sport. The evolution of cricket also caused great independence for underrated countries including India and Africa which claimed independence through cricket.

Discuss Johnny Mullagh

Johnny Mullagh born on the 13 August 1841 in Australia and died the 14 of August 1891 was a leading cricketer from Victoria who led the famous 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England. He carried his team to defeat England in multiple games, he was powered individually as he was said to overcome racial barriers and became respected by many. His leading throughout cricket history opened different citizens around the world to different cultural factors and more indigenous people came to the realisation that everyone was capable of participating in world cricket. These actions created many more teams around the world expressing different racial factors and independence. Johnny Mullagh was given credit for the cultural aspect of cricket due to his confidence in creating his own indigenous team.