Abstract
The controversies surrounding issues of sport and national identity encapsulated by Norman Tebbit’s infamous ‘cricket test’ quoted above resurfaced in 1999 in England during the cricket World Cup. The support for Pakistan, India and Bangladesh during this tournament from Britain’s Asian communities was significant, and many of these fans were quoted as being only too happy to fail Tebbit’s ‘test’ (Reid, 1999). Whilst for Tebbit and others not just of the political Right, to be English is to identify with, and assimilate into, the dominant white culture, for many British Asians the cricket World Cup offered the opportunity to affirm and display their own cultural and sporting identities.
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